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Populism and Social Polarization in European Democracies

Ginsburgh, Victor; Perelman, Sergio; Pestieau, Pierre - 2020

The objective of this paper is to explain populist attitudes that are prevailing in a number of European democracies. Populist attitudes expectedly lead to social protests and populist votes. We capture the populist wave by relying not on voting behavior but rather on values that are...

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Premature Deaths, Accidental Bequests and Fairness

Fleurbaey, Marc; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; … - 2017

, whereas the conventional 100 % tax view holds under the standard utilitarian social welfare criterion, it does not hold under … the ex post egalitarian criterion, which assigns a strong weight to the welfare of unlucky short-lived individuals. From …

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Fair long-term care insurance

Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Grégory - 2019

The study of optimal long-term care (LTC) social insurance is generally carried out under the utilitarian social criterion, which penalizes individuals who have a lower capacity to convert resources into well-being, such as dependent elderly individuals or prematurely dead individuals. This...

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Estate taxation with both accidental and planned bequests

Pestieau, Pierre; Sato, Motohiro - 2006

Actual inheritances are an hybrid of canonical types of bequests and in particular of accidental bequests and altruistic bequests. In this paper, bequeathed estate consists of two components: an amount intended by altruistic parents and an amount which results from the premature death of...

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Income taxation of couples and the tax unit choice

Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, Jean-Marie; Pestieau, Pierre - 2007

This paper studies the optimal non linear income tax of couples. We build a general unitary model of labor supply and allow multidimensional heterogeneity in a discrete type framework. We concentrate our analysis on the resulting intra-family labor allocation of labor supplies and show that this...

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Should we subsidize longevity?

Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Grégory - 2009

function, and on how the government weights the welfare of heterogeneous agents. All in all, it might be desirable to tax …

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Fertility, human capital accumulation, and the pension system

Cremer, Helmuth; Gahvari, Firouz; Pestieau, Pierre - 2009

This paper provides a unified treatment of externalities associated with fertility and human capital accumulation as they relate to pension systems. It considers as overlapping generations model in which every generation consists of high earners and low earners with the proportion of types being...

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Education and social mobility

Cremer, Helmuth; De Donder, Philippe; Pestieau, Pierre - 2010

This paper shows that the design of education policy involves a potential conflict between welfare and social mobility … welfare maximization calls for the most elitist system. We show that when private education is available, the degree of … elitism that maximizes social mobility increases, while the welfare-maximizing degree of elitism decreases. The ranking …

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Accidental bequests: A curse for the rich and a boon for the poor

Cremer, Helmuth; Gahvari, Firouz; Pestieau, Pierre - 2010

When accidental bequests signal otherwise unobservable individual characteristics such as productivity and longevity, the tax administration should partition the population into two groups: One consisting of people who do not receive an inheritance and the other of those who do. The first tagged...

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Taxing sin goods and subsidizing health care

Cremer, Helmuth; de Donder, Philippe; Maldonado, Darío; … - 2008

We consider a two-period model. In the first period, individuals consume two goods: one is sinful and the other is not. The sin good brings pleasure but has a detrimental effect on second period health and individuals tend to underestimate this effect. In the second period, individuals can...

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