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Who is at the Top? Wealth Mobility over the Life Cycle

Hochguertel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

Who is wealthy? This paper presents empirical estimates of household movements into and out of the top percents of the wealth distribution over individual life cycles. There are life-cycle motives and precautionary motives for wealth accumulation. The opportunities to accumulate wealth create...

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When a Price is Enough: Implementation in Optimal Tax Design

Renes, Sander; Zoutman, Floris T. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

This paper studies the design of tax systems that implement a planner's second-best allocation in a market economy. An example shows that the widely used Mirrleesian (1976) tax system cannot implement all incentive-compatible allocations. Hammond's (1979) "principle of taxation" proves that any...

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Well-Being Inequality and Reference Groups - An Agenda for New Research

Praag, Bernard M.S. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up … href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/ak4r54626380774p/">Journal of Economic Inequality</A>. …

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Trade Policy and the Household Distribution of Income

Francois, J.; Rojas-Romagosa, H. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between … tariffs, development level, and observed household inequality. Working with a new dataset, we then examine crosscountry … variation in inequality with respect to import protection. Results are consistent with predictions of the factor-intensity model …

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Health and Inequality

O'Donnell, Owen; Doorslaer, Eddy Van; Ourti, Tom Van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence supports a significant and substantial impact of ill … makes to income inequality. Variation in exposure to health risks early in life is a potentially important mechanism through … which health may generate, and possibly sustain, economic inequality. If material advantage can be excercised within the …

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Environmental Tax Reform and Double Dividend

Patuelli, Roberto; Pels, Eric; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

In this paper we offer a meta-analysis approach to (simulation) studies on environmental tax reform (ETR). The underlying studies look both at environmental effects (e.g. reduction in CO2 emission) and economic effects (e.g. change in gross domestic product) following such a tax reform. The...

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Input versus Output Taxation in an Experimental International Economy

Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

This discussion paper led to a publication in <A href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014292111000912">'European Economic Review'</A>, 56(2) 216-32.<P>This paper is concerned with a policy oriented macroeconomic experiment involving an 'international' economy with a relatively small 'home' country and a large 'foreign' country. It compares the economic...</p></a>

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On Taxation in a Two-Sector Endogenous Growth Model with Endogenous Labor Supply

Hek, Paul A. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

This paper examines the effects of taxation on long-run growthin a two-sector endogenous growth model with (i) physical capitalas an input in the education sector and (ii) leisure as anadditional argument in the utility function. The analysis of theeffects of taxation - including income...

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Start-up Costs, Taxes and Innovative Entrepreneurship

Darnihamedani, Pourya; Block, Joern Hendrich; Hessels, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015

Prior research suggests that start-up costs and taxes negatively influence entry into entrepreneurship. Yet, no distinction is made regarding the type of entrepreneurship, particularly innovative versus non-innovative entrepreneurship. Start-up costs, being one-off costs, may reduce the entry of...

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Welfare Effects of Distortionary Tax Incentives under Preference Heterogeneity: An Application to Employer-provided Electric Cars

Dimitropoulos, Alexandros; Ommeren, Jos N. van; Koster, Paul - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

This paper presents an approach for the estimation of welfare effects of tax policy changes under heterogeneity in consumer preferences. The approach is applied to evaluate the welfare effects of current tax advantages for electric vehicles supplied as fringe benefits by employers. Drawing on...

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