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Optimal Redistribution and Monitoring of Labor Effort

Zoutman, Floris - 2014

This paper extends the Mirrlees (1971) model of optimal non-linear income taxation with a monitoring technology that allows the government to verify labor effort at a positive, but non-infinite cost. Monitored individuals receive a penalty, which increases if individuals earn a lower income...

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Redistributive Income Taxation under Outsourcing and Foreign Direct Investment

Aronsson, Thomas - 2010

This paper deals with optimal income taxation under labor outsourcing and FDI. We show how the optimal income tax response to the joint effect of outsourcing and FDI depends on whether FDI is complementary with, or substitutable for, domestic labor

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Globalization, Jobs, and Welfare : The Roles of Social Protection and Redistribution

Ranjan, Priya - 2015

optimal redistribution and social protection policies are in place, globalization necessarily improves social welfare …

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Redistribution and Insurance with Simple Tax Instruments

Findeisen, Sebastian - 2015

provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … bound on optimal taxes: even for welfare functions that do not value redistribution, marginal tax rates are positive for all …

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Social Long Term Care Insurance and Redistribution

Cremer, Helmuth - 2011

We study the role of social long term care (LTC) insurance when income taxation and private insurance markets are imperfect. Policy instruments include public provision of LTC as well as a subsidy on private insurance. The subsidy scheme may be linear or nonlinear. For the linear part we...

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Top Incomes, Rising Inequality, and Welfare

Lansing, Kevin J. - 2012

This paper develops a general-equilibrium model of skill-biased technological change that approximates the observed shifts in the shares of wage and non-wage income going to the top decile of U.S. households since 1980. Under realistic assumptions, we find that all agents can benefit from the...

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Long-Term Care Policy, Myopia and Redistribution

Cremer, Helmuth - 2012

This paper examines whether myopia (misperception of the long-term care (LTC) risk) and private insurance market loading costs can justify social LTC insurance and/or the subsidization of private insurance. We use a two-period model wherein individuals differ in three unobservable...

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Family Taxation, Fertility, and Horizontal Equity : A Political Economy Perspective

Balestrino, Alessandro - 2012

This paper intends to make a two-fold contribution to the literature. First, it studies a political economy model of family taxation using a household economics approach to behavior; the nature of the winning policy is found to depend on whether i) the parents control their fertility or not, ii)...

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Monetary Policy and Redistribution : What Can or Cannot Be Neutralized with Mirrleesian Taxes

Gahvari, Firouz - 2013

This paper develops an overlapping-generations model with heterogeneous agents in terms of earning ability and cash-in-advance constraint. It shows that tax policy cannot fully replicate or neutralize the redistributive implications of monetary policy. While who gets the extra money becomes...

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The Political Economy of Taxation : Power, Structure, Redistribution

Winer, Stanley L. - 2017

democracies; (2) the nature and determinants of modern tax structures; and (3) redistribution in pluralistic societies over …

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