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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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Political preferences for redistribution in Sweden

Bastani, Spencer; Lundberg, Jacob - 2016

We examine preferences for redistribution inherent in Swedish tax policy 1971-2012 using the inverse optimal tax …

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Optimal taxation under regional inequality

Kessing, Sebastian; Lipatov, Vilen; Zoubek, Jens Malte - 2014

Regional productivity differences provide scope for productivity-enhancing labor mobility. Redistribution reduces …, productivity-enhancing migration margin, we determine how regional inequality and labor mobility affect optimal redistribution …

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Nonlinear taxation of income and education in the presence of income-misreporting

Bastani, Spencer; Gahvari, Firouz; Micheletto, Luca - 2022

We study the joint design of nonlinear income and education taxes when the government pursues redistributive objectives. A key feature of our setup is that the ability type of an agent can affect both the costs and benefits of acquiring education. Market remuneration of agents depends on both...

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Redistribution with unequal life expectancy

Köhne, Sebastian - 2023

optimal income tax policy using theory and calibration. A positive association between life expectancy and income counteracts … the well-known static pattern of declining marginal utility. As a result, the mechanical value of redistribution is … effects of the mechanical value of redistribution dominate, and the optimal marginal tax rates fall by up to 10 percentage …

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Time-consistent fiscal policy under heterogeneity : conflicting or common interests?

Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Malley, James R.; … - 2011

This paper studies the aggregate and distributional implications of Markov-perfect taxspending policy in a neoclassical growth model with capitalists and workers. Focusing on the long run, our main findings are: (i) it is optimal for a benevolent government, which cares equally about its...

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Expansion of higher education and time-consistent taxation

Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2007

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Artificial time inconsistency as a remedy for the race to the bottom

Weichenrieder, Alfons J. (contributor); … - 2005

A long-standing concern in the literature has been that household mobility implies a serious threat to the viability of redistributive taxation. This paper considers the effects of deferred integration of migrants into the redistributive system of the target country. In a model of symmetric...

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Redistributive politics and the tyranny of the middle class

Zoutman, Floris T.; Jacobs, Bas; Jongen, Egbert L. W. - 2016

The Netherlands has a unique tradition in which all major Dutch political parties provide CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis with highly detailed proposals for the tax benefit system in every national election. This information allows us to quantitatively measure the...

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