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Optimal Taxation According to Equality of Opportunity: A Microeconometric Simulation Analysis

Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo; Roemer, John E. - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2008

The purpose of this paper is to introduce and adopt a generalised version of Roemer's (1998) Equality of Opportunity (EOp) framework, which we call extended EOp, for analysing second-best optimal income taxation. Unlike the pure EOp criterion of Roemer (1998) the extended EOp criterion allows...

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Are Lone Mothers Responsive to Policy Changes? The Effects of a Norwegian Workfare Reform on Earnings, Education and Poverty.

Pronzato, Chiara; Mogstad, Magne - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2008

High welfare dependency and poverty rate among lone mothers prompted a workfare reform of the Norwegian welfare system … easing the government’s financial burden – but also reduced poverty. …

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POVERTY RANKINGS OF OPPORTUNITY PROFILES

PERAGINE, VITO; SAVAGLIO, ERNESTO; VANNUCCI, STEFANO - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2009

We address the problem of ranking distributions of opportunity sets in terms of poverty. In order to accomplish this … task, we identify a suitable notion of ‘multidimensional poverty line’ and we characterize axiomatically several poverty … rankings of opportunity profiles. Among them, the Head-Count and the Opportunity-Gap poverty rankings, which are the natural …

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Measuring the well being of children using a capability approach An application to Indian data

Tommaso, Maria Laura Di - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2006

This paper aims at conceptualising the well being of children in developing countries using a capability approach and at measuring well being in a pilot study using a multiple indicator multiple causes model (MIMIC). First, the concept of capabilities for children is defined. Secondly the paper...

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As bad as it gets: well being deprivation of sexually exploited trafficked women

Tommaso, Maria Laura Di; Shima, I.; Strøm, S.; Bettio, F. - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2007

The International Organization for Migration has collected data on trafficked individuals. The aim of this paper is to use the sub-sample of sexually exploited women in order to explore the relationship between their well being deprivation, their personal characteristics, and their working...

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Social discounting, migration and optimal taxation of savings

DeBonis, Valeria; Spataro, Luca - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2006

The issue of inheritance taxation is very similar to that of capital income taxation, once they are analyzed within the optimal taxation framework: should one tax own future consumption and estate (i.e. perspective heirs’ consumption) more than own present consumption? As for capital income...

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Designing Optimal Taxes with a Microeconometric Model of Household Labour Supply

Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2008

The purpose of this paper is to present an exercise where we identify optimal income tax rules according to various social welfare criteria, keeping fixed the total net tax revenue. To this end, we estimate a microeconomic model with 78 parameters that capture heterogeneity in...

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Designing Optimal Taxes with a Microeconometric Model of Household Labour Supply

Colombino, Ugo; Aaberge, Rolf - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2006

The purpose of this paper is to present an exercise where we identify optimal income tax rules under the constraint of fixed tax revenue. To this end, we estimate a microeconomic model with 78 parameters that capture heterogeneity in consumption-leisure preferences for singles and couples as...

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Tranfers to families with children as a principal-agent problem

Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa; Pettini, Anna - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2000

The relationship between government and parents is modelled as a principal-agent problem, with the former in the role of principal and the latter in the role of agents. We make three major points. The first is that, if the well-being of the child depends not only on luck, but also on parental...

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ENDOGENOUS FERTILITY AND THE DESIGN OF FAMILY TAXATION

Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa; Pettini, Anna - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2000

The paper innovates on the existing optimal taxation literature by taking fertility as endogenous, and allowing for households to be di¤erentiated by ability to raise children, as well as wage rates. In a context where the government cannot observe personal abilities, fertility behaviour...

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