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Redistribution and education subsidies are siamese twins

Bovenberg, Ary Lans; Jacobs, Bas - 2003

optimal education subsidies. Optimal subsidies on education ensure efficiency in human capital accumulation and thus play an … verify all investments in human capital, education policy offsets some but not all tax-induced distortions on learning. Non …-pecuniary educational costs (benefits) may increase (decrease) subsidies on education, especially if they are complementary to work effort. …

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Human capital and optimal positive taxation of capital income

Jacobs, Bas; Bovenberg, Ary Lans - 2005

This paper analyzes optimal linear taxes on capital and labor incomes in a life-cyclemodel of human capital investment, financial savings, and labor supply with heteroge-nous individuals. A dual income tax with a positive marginal tax rate on not onlylabor income but also capital income is...

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Optimal linear income taxation and education subsidies under skill-biased technical change

Jacobs, Bas; Thuemmel, Uwe - 2020

This paper studies how linear tax and education policy should optimally respond to skill-biased technical change (SBTC … effects due to wage-(de)compression, and iii) education distortions. Analytically, the effect of SBTC on these three … distributional losses, and it increases education distortions. Also, SBTC lowers optimal education subsidies, since SBTC generates …

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Information and strategic voting

Tyszler, Marcelo; Schram, Arthur - 2011

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On the measurement of success and satisfaction

Brink, René van den; Steffen, Frank - 2012

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Solving the inverse power problem in two-tier voting settings

Weber, Matthias - 2014

There are many situations in which different groups make collective decisions by committee voting, where each group is represented by a single person. Theoretical concepts suggest how the voting systems in such committees should be designed, but these abstract rules can usually not be...

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Choosing voting systems behind the veil of Ignorance : a two-tier voting experiment

Weber, Matthias - 2014

There are many situations in which different groups make collective decisions by committee voting, with each group represented by a single person. A natural question is what voting system such a committee should use. Concepts based on voting power provide guidelines for this choice. The two most...

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A theory of policy reversal

Dur, Robert A. J.; Swank, Otto H. - 1997

After decades of government growth, Western countries have witnessed major policy reversals. Prominent examples include the far-reaching policy reversals implemented by Thatcher, Reagan, and Douglas. This paper offers an explanation for these policy reversals. Our key argument rests on the...

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Delegation or voting

Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - 2001

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A theory of policy reversal

Dur, Robert A. J.; Swank, Otto H. - 1997

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