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Responsibility and redistribution : the case of first best taxation

Tungodden, Bertil - 2001

It is not straightforward to define the ethics of responsibility in cases where the consequences of changes in factors within our control are partly determined by factors beyond our control. In this paper, we suggest that one plausible view is to keep us responsible for the parts of the...

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Redistribution and insurance with simple tax instruments ; presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, April 2015

Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 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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Normative analysis with societal constraints

Boadway, Robin W.; Martineau, Nicolas-Guillaume - 2013

This paper examines the question of achieving a societal consensus around redistributive policies. Its extent is measured by the degree of work participation among the different skill classes that populate the economy. This consensus is driven both by the material incentives and heterogeneous...

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Human capital mobility : implications for efficiency, income distribution, and policy

Wildasin, David E. - 2014

Mobility of highly-skilled workers affects and is affected by labor market conditions, taxes, and other policies. This paper documents the demographic and fiscal importance of international migration, especially in aging societies, reviews the efficiency and distributional effects of mobility,...

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Political institutions and income (re-)distribution : evidence from developed economies

Feld, Lars P.; Schnellenbach, Jan - 2013

. Fiscal competition is associated with less income redistribution and a less equal distribution of disposable incomes, but …

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Deserving poor and the desirability of minimum wage rules

Blumḳin, Tomer; Danziger, Leif - 2014

In this paper we provide a novel justification for the use of minimum wage rules to supplement the optimal tax-and-transfer system. We demonstrate that if labor supply decisions are concentrated along the intensive margin and employment is efficiently rationed, a minimum wage rule can be...

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Biased perceptions of income inequality and redistribution

Engelhardt, Carina; Wagener, Andreas - 2014

and the extent of redistribution in democratic regimes - though such a link does not exist when objective measures of …

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Walk the line : conflict, state capacity and the political dynamics of reform

Jain, Sanjay; Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun W. - 2014 - Rev.

This paper develops a dynamic framework to analyze the political sustainability of economic reforms in developing countries. First, we demonstrate that economic reforms that are proceeding successfully may run into a political impasse, with the reform's initial success having a negative impact...

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Does income inequality lead to terrorism?

Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2016

terrorism to voice dissent and achieve a redistribution of wealth. Furthermore, we provide evidence of an indirect effect of …

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How do governments fare about redistribution? : new evidence on the political economy of redistribution

Padovano, Fabio; Scervini, Francesco; Turati, Gilberto - 2016 - This version: September 2016

We examine whether and to what extent political institutions explain different performances in income redistribution … across countries. In particular, we first review available sources of data and measures of income redistribution, discussing … explanations of redistribution from resources and instruments, as well as supply side factors. We then provide empirical evidence …

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