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Optimal taxation under regional inequality
Kessing, Sebastian; Lipatov, Vilen; Zoubek, Jens Malte - 2014
, productivity-enhancing migration margin, we determine how regional inequality and labor mobility affect optimal redistribution …Regional productivity differences provide scope for productivity-enhancing labor mobility. Redistribution reduces … are reduced by several percentage points if productivity enhancing migration is taken into account. Additionally, we study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010469268
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Spatial inequality, geography and economic activity
Achten, Sandra; Lessmann, Christian - 2019
We study the effect of spatial inequality on economic activity. Given that the relationship is highly simultaneous in nature, we use exogenous variation in geographic features to construct an instrument for spatial inequality, which is independent from any man-made factors. Inequality measures...
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Regional inequality and internal conflict : conference paper
Lessmann, Christian - 2014 - This version: January 2013
This paper studies the influence of interregional inequality within countries on internal conflicts. Regional inequalities are measured by the population-weighted coefficient of variation of regional GDP per capita. As the main innovation, I use a panel data set of country-level regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010484464
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Human capital mobility : implications for efficiency, income distribution, and policy
Wildasin, David E. - 2014
paper documents the demographic and fiscal importance of international migration, especially in aging societies, reviews the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354844
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280819
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009765042
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013390911
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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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Regional inequality, convergence, and its determinants : a view from outer space
Lessmann, Christian; Seidel, André - 2015 - This version: 16.04.2015
This paper provides a new data set of regional income inequalities within countries based on satellite nighttime light data. We first empirically study the relationship between luminosity data and regional incomes for those countries where regional income data are available. We subsequently use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010515477