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Endogenous Longevity and Optimal Tax Progressivity

Heer, Burkhard; Rohrbacher, Stefan - 2021

We study the impact of endogenous longevity on optimal tax progressivity and inequality in an overlapping generations model with skill heterogeneity. Higher tax progressivity decreases both the longevity gap and net income inequality, but at the expense of lower average lifetime and lower...

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Gini and Optimal Income Taxation by Rank

Simula, Laurent - 2020

trade-off between size and inequality using the Gini or related families of positional indices. The key idea is that when …

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Bunching and Rank-Dependent Optimal Income Taxation

Simula, Laurent - 2020

(1987) and weights agree with the Lorenz quasi-ordering. Gini, S-Gini, and a class putting more emphasis on inequality in … for the maximin, Gini, and "illfare-ranked single-series Ginis". We then turn to a discrete population setting, and …

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