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Comparing Inequality Aversion across Countries When Labor Supply Responses Differ

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Neumann, Dirk; … - HAL - 2013

We analyze to which extent social inequality aversion differs across nations when control ling for actual country differences in labor supply responses. Towards this aim, we estimate labor supply elasticities at both extensive and intensive margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same...

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Is the Flat Tax Optimal under Income Risk?

Henriet, Dominique; Pintus, Patrick A.; Trannoy, Alain - HAL - 2014

We derive testable conditions ensuring that the income tax is optimal when agents are ex-ante identical but face idiosyncratic income risk. The optimal tax depends positively on both absolute risk aversion and risk variance and negatively on labor supply elasticity and absolute prudence. The...

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Taxing the Job Creators: Effcient Progressive Taxation with Wage Bargaining

Lawson, Nicholas - HAL - 2014

The standard economic view of the personal income tax is that it is a distortionary way of raising revenue which nonetheless has value because it tends to increase equality. However, when wages deviate from marginal product, the laissez-faire equilibrium is inefficient, and there can be an...

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Optimal taxation, social contract and the four worlds of welfare capitalism

Spadaro, Amadéo - HAL - 2008

Drawing from the formal setting of the optimal tax theory (Mirrlees 1971), the paper identifies the level of Rawlsianism of some European social planners starting from the observation of real data and redistribution systems and uses it to build a metric that allows measuring the degree of...

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Vive la Différence: Social Banks and Reciprocity in the Credit Market

Cornée, Simon; Szafarz, Ariane - HAL - 2013

Social banks are financial intermediaries paying attention to non-economic (i.e., social, ethical, and environmental) criteria. To investigate the behavior of social banks on the credit market, this paper proposes both theory and empirics. Our theoretical model rationalizes the idea that...

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Social status and crime

Arbak, Emrah - HAL - 2005

We consider a large population of agents choosing either to engage in a criminal activity or working. Individuals feel varying degrees of selfreproach if they commit criminal acts. In addition, they are concerned with their social status in society, based on others' perceptions of their values....

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Changing Identity: The Emergence of Social Groups

Horst, Ulrich; Kirman, Alan; Teschl, Miriam - HAL - 2006

Homo Economicus has progressed from an atomistic and self-interested individual in standard economics to a socially embedded agent in modern economics who is endowed with a particular social identity or with specific preferences for the latter. While this vision makesthe economic agent more...

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Environmental Policy and Growth in a Model with Endogenous Environmental Awareness

Constant, Karine; Davin, Marion - HAL - 2014

determined by education and pollution. The government can implement a tax on pollution and recycle the revenue in public … pollution abatement and/or education subsidy (influencing green behaviors). When agent's preferences for the environment are … the tax revenue is well allocated between education and direct environmental protection. …

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Child Income as an Insurance Mechanism. Consequences for the Health-Education Relationship

Bourlès, Renaud; Ventelou, Bruno; Woode, Maame Esi - HAL - 2012

This paper analyzes the relationships between HIV/AIDS and education taking into account the appropriative nature of …

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The Role of Social Networks and Peer Effects in Education Transmission

Bervoets, Sebastian; Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - HAL - 2012

mobility and increases the average education level in the population. We also show that a planner that encourages social …

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