income distribution when the funds are rebated to households through reductions in the payroll tax and personal income tax … indicates that reforms can be designed to preserve the existing income distribution. In fact, it appears to be easier to …

data on 322,000 families in the U.S. Treasury's Distribution Model to study vertical redistributions between rich and poor …

skills or not. The government influences individual decision-making by redistribution of income or by subsidizing investment … in skills. Both types of policies have complicated effects on income inequality and social welfare. The first policy … inequality aversion and financing the subsidy is not too distortive …

The purpose of the present note is to explore the structure of optimal income taxation/redistribution in an economy …, of course, an additional incentive for income redistribution from wealthy to poor citizens is created and the logical … income distribution and its interaction with the elasticity of the marginal utility of consumption; of course, "labor supply …

presence of a trade-off between aggregate stabilization and inequality in consumption responses to external shocks. The …

The distribution of human capital and income lies at the center of a nexus of forces that shape a country's economic … the flexibility of their production processes to the distribution of workers' skills. The greater is human capital … excessive flexibility, resulting in suboptimal growth or even self-sustaining technology-inequality traps. Fourth, I examine how …