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Outsourcing, Public Input Provision and Policy Cooperation

Aronsson, Thomas; Koskela, Erkki - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper concerns public input provision as an instrument for redistribution under international outsourcing by using …

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Fiscal Competition and the Composition of Public Spending: Theory and Evidence

Borck, Rainald; Caliendo, Marco; Steiner, Viktor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In this paper, we consider fiscal competition between jurisdictions. Capital taxes are used to finance a public input and two public goods, one which benefits mobile skilled workers and one which benefits immobile unskilled workers. We derive the jurisdictions’ reaction functions for different...

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Agglomeration and Tax Competition

Borck, Rainald; Pflüger, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Tax competition for a mobile factor is different in 'new economic geography settings' compared to standard tax competition models. The agglomeration rent which accrues to the mobile factor in the core region can be taxed. Moreover, a tax differential between the core and the periphery can be...

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Ist Deutschland wirklich so progressiv? Einkommensumverteilung im europäischen Vergleich

Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Siegloch, Sebastian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Deutschland wird im europäischen Vergleich häufig ein überdurchschnittlich progressives Steuersystem attestiert. Die einzigartige, mehrstufige Progressionsformel der Einkommensteuer trägt ohne Zweifel zu dieser Sichtweise bei. Um ein umfassendes Bild der Progressivität eines Gesamtsystems...

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Consumption Smoothing and the Structure of Labor and Credit Markets

Bertola, Giuseppe; Koeniger, Winfried - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

government redistribution in countries where consumer credit is relatively scarce. They may also explain observed institutional …

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Income Taxes, Property Values and Migration

Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We consider taxation by a utilitarian government in the presence of heterogeneous locations within a country. We show that a utilitarian government never equalizes after-tax incomes, even when it can impose group-specific lump-sum taxes. If migration is impossible, a utilitarian government may...

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Education, Redistributive Taxation and Confidence

Konrad, Kai A.; Spadaro, Amedeo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

redistribution among young individuals. …

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The Social Contract with Endogenous Sentiments

Cervellati, Matteo; Esteban, Joan; Kranich, Laurence - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In this paper we present a model of rational voting over redistribution where individual selfesteem and relative esteem … standard and decreasing their esteem for those who work less. The desired extent of redistribution depends both on individual … particular type. Under these conditions equilibrium redistribution increases in response to larger inequality. In a “clustered …

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The Political Economy of Job Protection and Income Redistribution

Amable, Bruno; Gatti, Donatella - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

alternative institutional options: the degree of labour market flexibility and the intensity of redistribution. We show that the … (positive flexibility versus positive redistribution). …

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Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Orszag, J. Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...

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