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Labor Mobility and Income Tax Competition
Piaser, Gwenael - EconWPA - 2003
This paper provides a model of nonlinear income taxation in a context of international mobility. We consider two identical countries, in which each government chooses non-cooperatively redistributive taxes. It is shown that when skilled workers can move at low cost, the income taxation does not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561003
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Monopoly Power and Optimal Taxation of Capital Income
Selim, Sheikh Tareq - EconWPA - 2005
The recent general trend of cutting top marginal income tax rates in industrialized economies and the policy concern of enhancing competition in the US and the EU product markets subtly motivate the question if low income tax rates are optimal in an economy with imperfectly competitive markets....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561149
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Pre-announced optimal tax reform
Klein, Paul; Domeij, David - EconWPA - 1998
Optimal tax policies in dynamic models have unappealing features. In particular, optimal tax reform typically involves a large initial accumulation of government assets which is responsible for a large part of the welfare gains from optimal tax reform. In this paper, we investigate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412618
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Estate and Capital Gains Taxation: Efficiency and Political Economy Considerations
Aura, Saku - EconWPA - 2004
In this paper a simple dynastic overlapping-generations model with homogeneous agents is used to analyze the optimal use of capital income tax, labor income tax and estate tax. The results of this analysis add to the conventional wisdom about capital income taxation: while it is true that in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076583
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Monopoly Power and Optimal Taxation of Labor Income
Selim, Sheikh Tareq - EconWPA - 2005
This paper studies the Ramsey problem of optimal labor income taxation in a simple model economy which deviates from a first best representative agent economy in three important aspects, namely, flat rate second best tax, monopoly power in intermediate product market, and monopolistic wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076697
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Tectonic shifts in the structures of international inequality?
TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005
penetration. Keywords: cross-section models, income distribution, inequality, international economic order, economic welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556011
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Is Islam really a development blockade? 12 predictors of development, including membership in the Organization of Islamic Conference, and their influence on 14 indicators of develo...
TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005
With all the talk in Europe about “Islam” and “Muslim culture” it is surprising how little hard-core empirical evidence exists on the compatibility of “Muslim culture” with positive patterns of political, social, and ecological development in the world system in the 1980s, 1990s, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125619
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The Political Economy of Redistribution Under Asymmetric Information
Dhami, Sanjit - EconWPA - 2001
This paper examines the political economy of redistribution when voters have asymmetric information about the … "inter term tax variability" (political budget cycles) during the tenure of a politician. The effect of inequality on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407535
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Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society
Kingdon, Geeta; Knight, John - EconWPA - 2004
Using a South African data set, the paper poses six questions about the determinants of subjective well-being. Much of the paper is concerned with the role of relative concepts. We find that comparator income – measured as average income of others in the local residential cluster - enters the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118826
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Why we all do care about inequality (but are loath to admit it)
Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2004
This note is motivated by recent arguments made by Martin Feldstein in which the relevance of inequality is dismissed … (if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty … alleviation should matter. This note shows that we all do care about inequality, and to hold that we should be concerned with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076936