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Normative Analysis with Societal Constraints

Boadway, Robin; Martineau, Nicolas-Guillaume - CESifo - 2013

This paper examines the question of achieving a societal consensus around redistributive policies. Its extent is measured by the degree of work participation among the different skill classes that populate the economy. This consensus is driven both by the material incentives and heterogeneous...

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Optimal Wage Redistribution in the Presence of Adverse Selection in the Labor Market

Bastani, Spencer; Blumkin, Tomer; Micheletto, Luca - CESifo - 2014

In this paper we allude to a novel role played by the non-linear income tax system in the presence of adverse selection in the labor market due to asymmetric information between workers and firms. We show that an appropriate choice of the tax schedule enables the government to affect the wage...

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Fair and Efficient Taxation under Partial Control: Theory and Evidence

Ooghe, Erwin; Peichl, Andreas - CESifo - 2011

There is clear evidence that fairness plays a role in redistribution. Individuals want to compensate others for their …

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Good Jobs, Bad Jobs and Redistribution

Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Sandvik, Bjørn; Staume, Odd Rune - CESifo - 2003

We analyse the question of optimal taxation in a dual economy, when the government is concerned about the distribution of labour income. Income inequality is caused by the presence of sunk capital investments, which creates a ‘good jobs’ sector due to the capture of quasi-rents by trade...

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Optimal Taxation under Regional Inequality

Kessing, Sebastian; Lipatov, Vilen; Zoubek, Jens Malte - CESifo - 2014

Regional productivity differences provide scope for productivity-enhancing labor mobility. Redistribution reduces … relocation incentives through higher taxes or lower transfers. Combining an intensive labor supply margin with an extensive …, productivity-enhancing migration margin, we determine how regional inequality and labor mobility affect optimal redistribution …

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Government Budget Deficits in Large Open Economies

Buiter, Willem H.; Sibert, Anne - CESifo - 2011

Large and growing levels of public debt in the United States, United Kingdom, Japan and the Euro Area raise new interest in the cross-country effects of a large open economy’s deficits. We consider a dynamic optimising model with costly tax collection and exogenously given public spending and...

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Monetary Policy and Redistribution: What can or cannot be Neutralized with Mirrleesian Taxes

Gahvari, Firouz; Micheletto, Luca - CESifo - 2012

This paper develops an overlapping-generations model with heterogeneous agents in terms of earning ability and cash-in-advance constraint. It shows that tax policy cannot fully replicate or neutralize the redistributive implications of monetary policy. While who gets the extra money becomes...

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Consumption and Keynesian Fiscal Policy

Schclarek, Alfredo - CESifo - 2004

This paper empirically studies the effects of fiscal policy shocks on private consumption. Further, it tries to determine if the level of government bond yield and the unemployment rate affect that relationship. We use yearly data between 1970 and 2000 for thirty-eight countries, of which half...

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Public Investment when Capital is Back - Distributional Effects of Heterogeneous Saving Behavior

Mattauch, Linus; Edenhofer, Ottmar; Klenert, David; … - CESifo - 2014

We study the impact of heterogeneous saving behavior on the distributional effects of public investment. A capital tax is levied to finance productive public capital in an economy with two types of households: high income households who save dynastically and middle income households who save for...

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Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - CESifo - 2014

home computers and enrollment in transferable courses and actual transfers to 4-year colleges. The results from the field … clear for the effects on actual transfers to 4-year colleges and the probability of using a computer to search for college …

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