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On the desirability of taxing capital income to reduce moral hazard in social insurance
Jacobs, Bas; Schindler, Dirk - 2009
This paper analyzes optimal linear taxes on labor income and savings in a standard two-period life-cycle model with endogenous leisure demands in both periods and non-insurable income risks. Households are subject to skill shocks in both periods of the life-cycle. We allow for completely general...
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Redistribution and occupational choice in a Schumpeterian growth model
García-Peñalosa, Cecilia (contributor);  … - 2004
context, we examine the impact of redistributive taxation and compute socially optimal tax rates. Redistribution acts as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002520985
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Optimum delayed retirement credit
Sheshinski, Eytan - 2003
A central question for pension design is how benefits should vary with the age of retirement beyond early eligibility age. It is often argued that in order to be neutral with respect to individual retirement decisions benefits should be actuarially fair, that is, the present value of additional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506463
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Taxation of a venture capitalist with a portfolio of firms
Keuschnigg, Christian - 2002
Venture capitalists not only finance but also advise and thereby add value to young innovative firms. The prospects of venture capital backed firms thus depend on joint efforts of entrepreneurs and informed venture capitalists, and are subject to double moral hazard. In financing a portfolio of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514038
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How to deal with covert child labour, and give children an effective education, in a poor developing country : an optimal taxation problem with moral hazard
Cigno, Alessandro - 2010
Given that credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given also that intra-household transfers, and much of the work a child does, are private information, the second-best policy uses a combination of need and merit based education awards, together with a mix of taxes on parental income,...
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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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