form of Income Tax Credits) are not only useful to exit the wage trap, but also to speed up recovery and reduce the child …

of the system, but it only implies that means testing becomes less severe so that benefits are extended also to the …

welfare function we show that the expression for a spouses' marginal income tax rate includes a "Pigouvian" (paternalistic …) and an incentive term. The Pigouvian term favors a marginal subsidy (tax) for the high-weight (low-weight) spouse, whose … structure across couples. In some cases both terms have the same sign and imply a positive marginal tax for the low …

A fat and a healthy good provide immediate gratification, and cause health costs or benefits in the long run, which are … concerning the health effects of the consumption of fat and of healthy goods. The level of the fat tax is determined through … fraction of the fat tax proceeds is "earmarked" to reduce health insurance premiums while the remaining fraction finances a …