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Should Pollution Taxes Be Targeted at Income Redistribution?

Jacobs, Bas - 2017

This paper analyses optimal corrective taxation and optimal income redistribution. Under general utility functions, the …

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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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Indirect Taxes for Redistribution : Should Necessity Goods Be Favored?

Boadway, Robin W. - 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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Optimal Income Taxation and Public Goods Provision in a Large Economy with Aggregate Uncertainty

Bierbrauer, Felix - 2009

We study a large economy model in which individuals have private information about their productive abilities and their preferences. Moreover, there is aggregate uncertainty so that the social benefits from taxation and public goods provision are a priori unknown. The analysis is based on a...

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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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A Theory of Income Taxation Under Multidimensional Skill Heterogeneity

Rothschild, Casey G. - 2015

We develop a unifying framework for optimal income taxation in multi-activity economies with general production technologies. Agents are characterized by an N-dimensional skill vector that captures intrinsic abilities in N activities. The private return to each activity depends on individual...

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Optimal Taxation, Income Inequality and the Household

Apps, Patricia F. - 2016

. The main reason for this is the inequity created by income splitting in the presence of a high degree of inequality in the …

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Shutting the Stable Door After the Horse Has Bolted? On Educational Risk and the Quality of Education

Schindler, Dirk - 2011

(income) inequality. We show that in a second-best setting, in which learning effort is not observable, improving the quality …-best solution, providing ex ante insurance significantly gains importance relative to traditional ex post redistribution, because it …

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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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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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