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Assurance maladie et redistribution : le cas de l’arrêt maladie
MAILLOT-BUGNON, Stéphanie - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2005
Cet article étudie le rôle redistributif d'une assurance sociale exclusive en présence d'un mécanisme d'imposition directe optimale. Les agents sont caractérisés par une productivité individuelle et un risque maladie. La réalisation de ce risque engendre une dépense de santé ainsi...
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Signing distortions in optimal tax and other adverse selection problems with random participation
JACQUET, Laurence; LEHMANN, Etienne; LINDEN, Bruno VAN DER - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2012
We develop a methodology to sign output distortions in the random participation framework. We apply our method to monopoly nonlinear pricing problem, to the regulatory monopoly problem and mainly to the optimal income tax problem. In the latter framework, individuals are heterogeneous across two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010533745
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Flexicurity in Belgium. A Proposal Based on Economic Principles
COCKX, Bart; LINDEN, Bruno VAN DER - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2009
The current unemployment insurance and employment protection legislation were set up in an economic environment in which relationships between workers and firms were typically lon-lastingand stable. The increasing globalisation of the economy and the rapid technological and organisational...
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Active Citizen's Income, Unconditional Income and Participation under Imperfect Competition: A Normative Analysis.
Van der Linden, Bruno - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 1999
Various types of basic income schemes are considered to compensate the allocative inefficiencies induced by unemployment insurance systems. This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model of a unionized economy where participation to the labor market is endogenous and the budget of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004985068
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Optimal Redistributive Taxation with both Extensive and Intensive Responses
JACQUET, Laurence; LEHMANN, Etienne; LINDEN, Bruno VAN DER - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2010
We derive a general optimal income tax formula when individuals respond along both the intensive and extensive margins and when income effects can prevail. Individuals are heterogeneous across two dimensions: their skill and their disutility of participation. Preferences over consumption and...
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Optimal income taxation with endogenous participation and search unemployment
Etienne, LEHMANN; Alexis, PARMENTIER; Bruno, VAN DER LINDEN - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2008
This paper characterizes the optimal redistributive taxation when individuals are heterogeneous in two exogenous dimensions : Their skills and their values of non-market activities. Search-matching frictions on the labor markets create unemployment. Wages, labor demand and participation are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004984859
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Pareto-Improving Unemployment Policies
Jorg, LINGENS; Klaus, WAELDE - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2005
We investigate how continental European unemployment can be reduced without reducing unemployment benefits and without reducing the net income of low-wage earners. Lower unemployment replacement rates reduce unemployment, the net wage and unemployment benefits. A lower tax on labour increases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004984874
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Spécialisation internationale et partage de la charge en matière de réduction de la pollution
Thierry, BRECHET; Marc, GERMAIN; Philippe, MONFORT - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2003
L’allocation de permis d’émission, notamment celle s’inscrivant dans le cadre du Protocole de Kyoto pour six gaz à effet de serre (GES), a suscité et suscitent encore de vives discussions politiques sur la question de savoir qui (quel pays ou quelle région) devrait supporter un effort...
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Income Inequality, School Choice and the Endogenous Gentrification of US Cities
Ghidi, Paololo Melindi - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2012
live in the same community but segregate by schooling. When inequality is smaller, we observe the typical sorting by income … across communities. The effect of inequality on the quality of public schools depends on the relative size of the housing … market of each community. When inequality increases, if the housing conditions of the community in which rich and poor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541428
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To Segregate or to Integrate : Education Politics and Democracy
David, DE LA CROIX; Matthias, DOEPKE - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2003
observe a wide variation in the mix of public and private funding of education. In addition, countries with high inequality … with high inequality exhibit more private education expenditures since rich people opt out of the public system. In non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004985171