Showing 1 - 10 of 1,751
so as to achieve the same amount of redistribution at lower cost. The French tax code should be simplified and changed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315796
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124972
We show that a transfer targeting a minority of the population is sustained by majority voting, however small the minority targeted, when the probability to receive the transfer is decreasing and concave in income. We apply our framework to the French social housing program and obtain that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048895
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098333
“blunt instrument” for redistribution. To delve deeper in this issue we build models in which workers are heterogeneous in … unemployment benefits). In the second model, the government engages in redistribution through the public provision of private goods …-kind redistribution, and (iii) the MW institution is politically viable only when there is a limited degree of in-kind redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951678
I propose a model of income redistribution in an open-economy environment. The world consists of a finite number of … income. While tax competition limits the extent to which redistribution is possible — as compared to the closed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021415
We introduce permanently-shifting income shares into a standard growth model with two types of agents. Capital owners represent the top quintile of U.S. households while workers represent the remainder. Our tractable model allows us to exactly replicate the observed U.S. time paths of the top...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315527
voluntarily supplied public goods; specifically, we show that not only an income inequality-raising redistribution policy but also … allowed, an inequality-raising redistribution policy is no longer effective and leaves social welfare unchanged …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965708
source of inequality and the cost of redistribution. We show that Americans and Norwegians differ significantly in fairness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963592
We examine whether individuals' experienced levels of income inequality affect their preferences for redistribution. We … their lives are less in favor of redistribution, after controlling for income, demographics, unemployment experiences and … inequality and reduce their demand for redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964374