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Economides, George; Philippopoulos, Apostolis - 2012

by the Ramsey government not only increases aggregate efficiency, but it also decreases inequality. This result is in …

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How High Can You Climb? Earnings Inequality and Intragenerational Earnings Mobility in a Developing Country: Evidence from Thai Tax Returns

Muthitacharoen, Athiphat; Burong, Trongwut - 2023

This paper investigates inequality and intragenerational economic mobility in a developing country with large … inequality. Understanding economic mobility is important because it shapes our perception of inequality. Despite its significance … countries. Using Thailand's tax return data, we study the evolution of earnings inequality, estimate medium-term earnings …

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Young liberals and old conservatives : inequality, mobility and redistribution

Muren, Astri; Nyberg, Sten - 2005

The paper examines the impact of income inequality and mobility on income redistribution in a modified median voter … model where redistributive conflict takes place both between educational groups and age-groups. The effects of inequality … inequality. We also examine the effect of the length of electoral periods on redistribution and welfare for different groups and …

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Salience of Inherited Wealth and the Support for Inheritance Taxation

Bastani, Spencer - 2019

aggregate importance of inherited wealth and its link to inequality of opportunity significantly increases the support for …

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Once upon a time preference: How rationality and risk aversion change the rationale for discounting

2012

The paper develops an axiomatic framework for rational decision making. The von Neumann-Morgenstern axioms give rise to a richer risk attitude than that captured in the standard discounted expected utility model. I derive three models that permit a more comprehensive risk evaluation. These...

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Honeybee Economics - Implications for Ecology Policy

Kanniainen, Vesa; Lehtonen, Tuula; Mellin, Ilkka - 2013

For thousands of years, humans have known the value of honeybees in agriculture. Their pollination services are crucial for the mankind, the Global ecosystem and food production. The recently documented decline of the honeybee colonies in the world is alarming and may threaten the whole living...

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On the Optimal Target Curbside Parking Occupancy Rate

Arnott, Richard J. - 2013

For many years, Donald Shoup has been advocating cashing out free and underpriced curbside parking. How should this be implemented in practice, taking into account the stochasticity of curbside parking vacancies? Shoup has proposed setting neighborhood/period of the day-specific meter rates such...

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Deserving Poor and the Desirability of Minimum Wage Rules

Blumkin, Tomer; Danziger, Leif - 2014

In this paper we provide a novel justification for the use of minimum wage rules to supplement the optimal tax-and-transfer system. We demonstrate that if labor supply decisions are concentrated along the intensive margin and employment is efficiently rationed, a minimum wage rule can be...

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Taxing children: the re-distributive role of child benefits - revisited

Blumkin, Tomer; Margalioth, Yoram; Sadka, Efraim - 2010

In this paper, we challenge the conventional wisdom that due to the negative correlation between family size and earning ability, family size can be used as a 'tagging' device, and calls for subsidizing children (via child allowances) to enhance egalitarian objectives. We show that the case for...

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Labor migration and the case for flat tax

Blumkin, Tomer; Sadka, Efraim; Shem-Tov, Yotam - 2011

In this paper we employ a tax-competition model to demonstrate that in the presence of migration the re-distributive advantage of a non-linear income tax system over a linear (flat) one is significantly mitigated relative to the autarky (no-migration) equilibrium. When migration threats are...

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