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To redistribute or to predistribute? : the minimum wage versus income taxation when workers differ in both wages and working hours
Gerritsen, Aart - 2023
I consider the case for the minimum wage alongside (optimal) income taxes when workers differ in both wages and working hours, such that a given level of income corresponds to multiple wage rates. The minimum wage is directly targeted at the lowest-wage workers, while income taxes are at most...
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Are education subsidies an efficient redistributive device?
Dur, Robert A. J.; Teulings, Coen N. - 2003
We argue that promoting education may be a means to reduceincome inequality. When workers of different skill levels ….Hence, a given compression of after-tax incomes can be achievedat lower marginal tax rates. Optimal redistribution policy faces …
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Should pollution taxes be targeted at income redistribution?
Jacobs, Bas; Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2017
This paper analyses optimal corrective taxation and optimal income redistribution. Under general utility functions, the …
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Redistributive politics and the tyranny of the middle class
Zoutman, Floris T.; Jacobs, Bas; Jongen, Egbert L. W. - 2016
The Netherlands has a unique tradition in which all major Dutch political parties provide CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis with highly detailed proposals for the tax-benefit system in every national election. This information allows us to quantitatively measure the...
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When a price is enough : implementation in optimal tax design
Renes, Sander; Zoutman, Floris T. - 2014
This paper studies the design of tax systems that implement a planner's second-best allocation in a market economy. An example shows that the widely used Mirrleesian (1976) tax system cannot implement all incentive-compatible allocations. Hammond's (1979) "principle of taxation" proves that any...
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Optimal taxation of human capital and credit constraints
Jacobs, Bas - 2002
We study optimal linear income taxation in a model with heterogeneous agents where earnings potentials are endogenously determined through human capital accumulation. Agents differ in initial conditions and ability to learn. Capital market imperfections prevent poor agents to invest optimally in...
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Optimal taxation with multiple incomes and types
Spiritus, Kevin; Lehmann, Etienne; Renes, Sander; … - 2022
We analyze the optimal nonlinear income tax schedule when taxpayers earn multiple incomes and differ along many unobserved dimensions. We derive the necessary conditions for the government's optimum using both a tax perturbation and a mechanism design approach, and show that both methods produce...
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Monopsony power, income taxation and welfare
Hummel, Albert Jan - 2021
capital income inequality. I illustrate these findings for the US economy …
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Redistribution and education subsidies are siamese twins
Bovenberg, Ary Lans; Jacobs, Bas - 2003
We develop models of optimal linear and non-linear income taxation with endogenous human capital formation to explore optimal education subsidies. Optimal subsidies on education ensure efficiency in human capital accumulation and thus play an important role in alleviating the tax distortions on...
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Born that way : beliefs about genetics' importance and redistribution preferences
Pogliano, Andrea - 2024
Meritocratic fairness justifies inequality when it stems from performance. Yet performance is influenced by one …'s genetics. I investigate whether individuals' redistribution preferences are affected by their beliefs about genetics' role in … generating performance inequality. In an incentivized online experiment, impartial spectators can redistribute the earnings that …
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