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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria - 2019
life-cycle model, we find that redistribution by taxes and transfers off sets 54% of the inequality in lifetime earnings …
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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria; … - 2023
Individuals vary considerably in how much they earn during their lifetimes. This study examines the role of the tax-and-transfer system in mitigating such inequalities, which could otherwise lead to disparities in living standards. Utilizing a life-cycle model, we determine that taxes and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014427523
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Optimal taxation under different concepts of justness
Jessen, Robin; Metzing, Maria; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2017
A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfarist social welfare … for the working poor in practice. We reconcile this puzzle by generalizing the optimal taxation framework by Saez (2002 …
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Inequality-minimization with a given public budget
König, Johannes; Schröder, Carsten - 2016
We solve the problem of a social planner who seeks to minimize inequality via transfers with a fixed public budget in a distribution of exogenously given incomes. The appropriate solution method depends on the objective function: If it is convex, as in the case of the absolute mean deviation, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011513031
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On the emissions-inequality trade-off in energy taxation : evidence on the German car fuel tax
Nikodinoska, Dragana; Schröder, Carsten - 2015
By using estimates from an Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS), we investigate how the German energy tax on car fuels changes the private households-CO2 emissions, living standards, and post-tax income distribution. Our results show that the tax implies a trade-off between the aim to reduce...
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Suspicious success : cheating, inequality acceptance, and political preferences
Klimm, Felix - 2018
Supporters of left-wing parties typically place more emphasis on redistributive policies than right-wing voters. I investigate whether this difference in tolerating inequality is amplified by suspicious success - achievements that may arise from cheating. Using a laboratory experiment, I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011899249
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Does income transparency affect support for redistribution? : evidence from Finland's tax day
Dunaiski, Maurice; Tukiainen, Janne - 2023
for redistribution. We leverage a quasi-experiment in Finland, where every year on the so-called tax day, the authorities … earnings of the top 10% are unfair, but that public support for redistribution remains largely unaffected. A notable exception … are top earners, who decrease their support for redistribution, and young people, who increase their support for …
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Mechanism design for unequal societies
Groh, Carl-Christian; Reuter, Marco - 2023
We study optimal mechanisms for a utilitarian designer who seeks to assign a finite number of goods to a group of ex ante heterogeneous agents with unit demand. The agents have heterogeneous marginal utilities of money, which may naturally arise in environments where agents have different wealth...
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The hidden burden of the income tax : compliance costs of German individuals
Blaufus, Kay; Eichfelder, Sebastian; Hundsdoerfer, Jochen - 2011
We analyze the compliance costs of individual taxpyers resulting from the German income tax. using survey data that has been raised between December 2008 and April 2009, we find evidence for a considerably higher cost burden of self-employed taxpaxers. Taxable income and the demand for external...
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Optimal need-based financial aid
Colas, Mark; Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2019
We study the optimal design of student financial aid as a function of parental income. We derive optimal financial aid formulas in a general model. For a simple model version, we derive mild conditions on primitives under which poorer students receive more aid even without distributional...
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