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Nous proposons une méthode pour évaluer la capacité des systèmes de taxation du revenu de diminuer la pauvreté, lorsque …
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We analyze the effects, on nonredistributive taxation and on migrations, of wage differentials existing between two …
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This contribution investigates the effictiveness and welfare implications of fiscal policies in a context of multilateral trade, when traders behave strategically. The present approach deals simultaneously with two aspects of fiscal policies: collecting resources for redistributive purposes and...
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We investigate the effectiveness of tax and transfer policies in correcting market distortions when the economy is imperfectly competitive. We perform this analysis in the context of an exchange model representing a bilateral oligopoly situation, which constitutes a particular example of a...
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In an overlapping generations economy setup we show that, if individuals can improve their life expectancy by exerting some effort, costly in terms of either resources or utility, the competitive equilibrium steady state differs from the first best steady state. This is due to the fact that...
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This paper considers a government that seeks both to redistribute income and to encourage or discourage the consumption of a certain good. This good is assumed to be either a merit or demerit good. Individuals differ in their exogenous income and in their preferences for the merit good. The...
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We establish the precise connections between progressive taxation and inequality reduction, in a setting where the … traditional literature on taxation, the equivalence between inequality reduction and the combination of progressivity and income …
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Progressivity, inequality reduction and merging-proofness are three wellknown axioms in taxation. We investigate … implications of each of the three axioms through characterizations of several families of taxation rules and their logical … relations. We also study the preservation of these axioms under two operators on taxation rules, the so-called convexity …
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This paper presents a political economy approach to payroll tax competition between countries adopting different systems of social insurance.
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