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A comparison of optimal tax policies when compensation or responsibility matter
Jacquet, Laurence; van de Gaer, Dirk - 2010
This paper examines optimal redistribution in a model with high- and low-skilled individuals with heterogeneous tastes for labor. We compare the extent to which optimal policies based on different normative criteria obey the principles of compensation (for differential skills) and responsibility...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839709
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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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