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To what extent are public pensions Pareto-improving? : on the interaction of means tested basic income and public pensions

Fenge, Robert; Weizsäcker, Jakob von - 1999

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Lifetime versus annual tax progressivity : Sweden, 1968-2009

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The efficiency and equity of the tax and transfer system in France

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Top incomes, rising inequality, and welfare

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The effect of school finance reform on population heterogeneity

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Financing universal health care in the United States : a general equilibrium analysis of efficiency and distributional effects

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Distributional impacts of the property tax revolt

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