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Inequality, public wealth, and the federal shareholder
Corneo, Giacomo - 2016
evolution by enhancing the role of public capital as a redistribution and empowerment device. The governance of public capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454031
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354844
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Public goods, signaling, and norms of conscientious leadership
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2016
I study a sequential-move public goods game based on the notion that leadership comes with an obligation; conscientious leadership. Provision by the leader of an amount of the public good below a minimum imposes a psychological cost on the follower which increases his unit cost of contribution....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573862
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792220
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337632
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Open economy public finance
Wildasin, David E. - 2021
Many important questions in the field of public finance can be viewed as problems involving public policies in open economies. This paper draws together, from that perspective, a wide range of topics in public economics, emphasizing the implications of resource mobility for our understanding of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012489638
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Welfare policy in the presence of unionised labour and internationally mobile firms
Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - 2010
improves the workers' outside options. Only if the latter become sufficiently attractive will redistribution induce some … upper limit for the generosity of the welfare state below which redistribution becomes less instead of more distortive …. -- offshoring : import competition ; wage bargaining ; oligopoly ; redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003966443
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The efficiency and equity of the tax and transfer system in France
Égert, Balázs - 2013
so as to achieve the same amount of redistribution at lower cost. The French tax code should be simplified and changed … transfers ; income inequality ; redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009734840
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Labor migration and the case for flat tax
Blumḳin, Tomer; Tsadḳah, Efrayim; Shem-Tov, Yotam - 2011
to a flat (inferior) regime is not too welfare-costly, even when the extent of re-distribution is significant. Therefore … redistribution. -- flat tax ; re-distribution ; migration ; tax-competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009130229
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What kind of EU fiscal capacity? : evidence from a randomized survey experiment in five European countries in times of Corona
Beetsma, Roel; Burgoon, Brian; Nicoli, Francesco; … - 2020
fine in the case of non-compliance. Further, there is broad acceptance of long-run redistribution towards poorer countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012258505