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One of the main features of health insurance is moral hazard, as defined by Pauly (1968); people face incentives for excess utilization of medical care since they do not pay the full marginal cost for provision. To mitigate the moral hazard problem, a coinsurance can be included in the insurance...
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This paper reconsiders the classical problem of majority voting over tax schedules, adding the possibility to avoid taxes. In this setting preferences over tax schedules are not determined by earned income, but rather by taxable income, which depends on the joint decisions of labor supply and...
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This paper examines the implications of income redistribution on human capital accumulation and income inequality … intellectual ability. It is shown that the impact of redistribution is ambiguous on the income distribution as well as on human … equity in low-tax societies, it may be highly detrimental in both respects if the rate of redistribution is already moderate …
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, that increases in the rate of interregional redistribution need not generate neither reduced interregional inequality nor … particular, interregional redistribution seems most likely to be beneficial in terms of interregional and interpersonal equity as …. -- interregional redistribution ; welfare ; inequality …
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We analyse the change in family gross income inequality between 1951 and 1973. We use two new samples of the Swedish population from 1951 and 1956 containing tax register data, and compare the results with those obtained from the Swedish Level of Living survey from 1967 and 1973. Gini...
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