, productivity-enhancing migration margin, we determine how regional inequality and labor mobility affect optimal redistribution …Regional productivity differences provide scope for productivity-enhancing labor mobility. Redistribution reduces … are reduced by several percentage points if productivity enhancing migration is taken into account. Additionally, we study …

, 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 …