, the effectiveness of the electricity tariff as a redistribution device is questionable in the presence of a progressive … model predicts that electricity prices should be subsidised in the presence of purely income redistribution concerns, we … conservation as well as income redistribution …

We analyze optimal redistribution in the presence of labor market signaling where innate productive ability is not only … desirability of redistribution through wage compression …

transition following the optimal reform in the capital-skill complementarity model, implying substantial indirect redistribution … from skilled to unskilled workers. These results show that a government that cares about redistribution should take into …

We integrate social exclusion, operationalized in terms of long-term unemployment, into the theory of optimal …, in conjunction with optimal income taxation, contributes to redistribution and reduced long-term unemployment. The second … varies with the government’s preferences for redistribution and the characteristics of those risking long-term unemployment …

This paper extends the Mirrlees (1971) model of optimal income redistribution with optimal corrective taxes to … internalize consumption externalities. It is demonstrated that the optimal second-best tax on an externality-generating good …

fiscal externalities. We discuss two applications: the taxation of different income sources such as labor or capital income …