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Redistribution and insurance with simple tax instruments

Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015

provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … bound on optimal taxes: even for welfare functions that do not value redistribution, marginal tax rates are positive for all …

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Social insurance, informality and labor markets : how to protect workers while creating good jobs

Pagés, Carmen; Rigolini, Jamele; Robalino, David A. - 2013

This paper provides an overview of the main findings of the book "Social Insurance and Labor Markets: How to Protect Workers While Creating New Jobs." The book conceptualizes and reviews the empirical evidence on the potential distortions that the social insurance system of a country can have on...

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Dissecting inequality-averse preferences

Bergolo, Marcelo; Burdín, Gabriel; Burone, Santiago; … - 2021

Although different approaches and methods have been used to measure inequality aversion, there remains no consensus about its drivers at the individual level. We conducted an experiment on a sample of more than 1800 first-year undergraduate economics and business students in Uruguay to...

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The social cost of unemployment : the Spanish labour market from a social welfare approach

Gorjón, Lucía; Rica, Sara de la; Villar, Antonio - 2018

This paper proposes a protocol for considering the social cost of unemployment by taking into account three different aspects: incidence, severity and hysteresis. Incidence refers to the conventional unemployment rate; severity takes in both unemployment duration and the associated income loss;...

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The impact of air pollution on attributable risks and economic costs of hospitalization for mental disorders

Wu, Ziting; Chen, Xi; Li, Guoxing; Lin, Tian; Wang, Zhan; … - 2020

This study aims to fill the gap in our understanding about exposure to particulate matters with diameter less than 2.5 µm (PM2.5) and attributable risks and economic costs of mental disorders (MDs). We identify the relationship between PM2.5 and risk of hospital admissions (HAs) for MDs in...

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Why praise inequality? : public good provision, income distribution and social welfare

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2009

redistribution from the rich to the poor will improve social welfare, regardless of how small inequality is in the status quo …

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Pure redistribution and the provision of public goods

Sausgruber, Rupert; Tyran, Jean-Robert - In: Economics letters 95 (2007) 3, pp. 334-338

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Immigration, search, and redistribution : a quantitative assessment of native welfare

Battisti, Michele; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Peri, Giovanni; … - 2014

redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …

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Inequality reduction and cooperation : injection of additional resources

Ramalingam, Abhijit; Stoddard, Brock V. - In: Economics letters 237 (2024), pp. 1-3

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Dynamic corporate investment and liquidity management under model uncertainty

Wu, Yaoyao; Yang, Jinqiang; Zou, Zhentao - In: Economics letters 155 (2017), pp. 9-13

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