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Pauvreté et mortalité différentielle chez les personnes âgées

Lefebvre, Mathieu; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthière, Grégory - In: Reflets et perspectives de la vie économique L (2011) 4, pp. 45-54

This paper aims at illustrating, in the case of Belgian regions, a specific problem faced by poverty measures. Since … ? poverty measures for the elderly depend not only on what one can call the ?true poverty?, but, also, on the selection induced … by differential mortality due to income inequality. By computing the hypothetical poverty rates that would prevail if all …

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Indirect Taxes for Redistribution : Should Necessity Goods Be Favored?

Boadway, Robin - 2011

Atkinson and Stiglitz show that with weakly separability, differential commodity taxes are unnecessary given an optimal nonlinear income tax. Deaton showed that with an optimal linear progressive income tax, commodity taxes are superfluous under weakly separable and linear Engel curves. Using...

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On the Policy Implications of Changing Longevity

Pestieau, Pierre - 2012

Our societies are witnessing a steady increase in longevity. This demographic evolution is accompanied by some convergence across countries, whereas substantial longevity inequalities persist within nations. The goal of this paper is to survey some crucial implications of changing longevity on...

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Should We Subsidize Longevity?

Leroux, M.‐L. - 2009

This paper studies the design of the optimal non linear taxation in an economy where longevity varies across agents, and depends on three factors: longevity genes, health investment and farsightedness. Provided earnings, farsightedness and genes are correlated, governmental intervention can be...

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Habit Formation and Labor Supply

Cremer, Helmuth - 2008

This paper shows that the combination of habit formation - present consumption creating additional consumption needs in the future - and myopia may explain why some retirees are forced to 'unretire', i.e., unexpectedly return to work. It also shows that when myopia about habit formation leads to...

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Taxing Sin Goods and Subsidizing Health Care

Cremer, Helmuth - 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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Taxing Pensions

Cremer, Helmuth - 2016

There exists a wide variety of tax treatments of pensions across the world. And the reasons for such a range of regimes are not clear. This note reviews the general principles of pension taxes and analyses the theoretical foundations of why pension incomes ought to be taxed specifically. To do...

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Indirect Taxes for Redistribution: Should Necessity Goods be Favored?

Boadway, Robin; Pestieau, Pierre - CESifo - 2011

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On the Policy Implications of Changing Longevity

Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Grégory - CESifo - 2012

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Accidental Bequests : A Curse for the Rich and a Boon for the Poor

Cremer, Helmuth - 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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