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Heterogeneity in needs and negative marginal tax rates

Bastani, Spencer; Blomquist, Nils Sören; Micheletto, Luca - 2017

This paper highlights the possibility that negative marginal tax rates arise in an intensive-margin optimal income tax model where wages are exogenous and preferences are homogeneous, but where agents differ both in skills (labor market productivity) and their needs for a work-related...

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Universal basic income versus unemployment insurance

Fabre, Alice; Pallage, Stéphane J.; Zimmermann, Christian - 2014

In this paper we compare the welfare effects of unemployment insurance (UI) with an universal basic income (UBI) system in an economy with idiosyncratic shocks to employment. Both policies provide a safety net in the face of idiosyncratic shocks. While the unemployment insurance program should...

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The political sustainability of a basic income scheme and social health insurance

Kifmann, Mathias; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014

and risk. Even though the introduction of a basic income scheme opens up the possibility for additional redistribution, it …

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Workforce or workfare?

Brett, Craig; Jacquet, Laurence - 2011

that are designed to provide additional incentives for individuals to enter the labor force. This article shows that …

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Optimal income taxation with unemployment and wage responses : a sufficient statistics approach

Kroft, Kory; Kucko, Kavan; Lehmann, Etienne; Schmieder, … - 2017

We derive a sufficient statistics optimal income tax formula in a general model that incorporates unemployment and endogenous wages, to study the shape of the tax and transfer system at the bottom of the income distribution. The sufficient statistics are the macro employment response to taxation...

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Tax policy in a model of search with training

Boone, Jan; Mooij, Ruud A. de - 2000

This paper develops a model of search on the labour market with training. The model reveals how the tax system can restore the social optimum if the Hosio s condition is not satisfied in the private equilibrium. Furthermore, the effects are explored of a second-best reform from average to...

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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

driven both by the material incentives and heterogeneous preferences for leisure of each skill class, and an endogenous …

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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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