Pensions and broader forms of retirement income do not stop at national borders. As part of globalization, individuals increasingly spend part of their working or retirement life abroad but want to keep or move their acquired rights, accumulated retirement assets, or benefits in payment freely...

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The paper summarizes the arguments in favor of a shift from comprehensive to dual income taxation and complements the discussion by an overview of tax reforms, which reveals the characteristic features of a dual income tax system. The scope of our analysis is not restricted to the Nordic...

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It is a widely acknowledged result of the literature on international tax competition that an inefficient provision of public goods can only be avoided, if taxes are sufficiently coordinated. In this paper we use a model where governments use commodity and factor taxes in the tax competition...

Der Finanzwissenschaftliche Ausschuss des Vereins für Socialpolitik hat in seiner Arbeitstagung 2001 die finanzpolitischen Ansatzpunkte zur Behebung von Arbeitsmarktproblemen diskutiert. Der Tagungsband enthält die drei Grundsatzreferate von Axel Börsch-Supan (Universität Mannheim),...

Der Finanzwissenschaftliche Ausschuss des Vereins für Socialpolitik hat in seiner Arbeitstagung 2002 finanzpolitische Ansatzpunkte einer nachhaltigen Umweltpolitik diskutiert. Die drei Grundsatzreferate des Tagungsbandes arbeiten die Weiterentwicklung der Forschung in drei zentralen...