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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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Income inequality and the size of government : a causal analysis

Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin - 2018

Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from the problem of endogeneity of government size with respect to the distribution of income. Studying 30 European countries over the period 2004-2015, we apply instrumental variable...

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Labour supply and commuting

Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva; Ommeren, Jos van - 2010

A new paradigm for transport economists has been established: revenues of a welfare-maximising road tax should be employed to reduce the level of a distortionary income tax. An essential modelling assumption to reach this conclusion is that the number of workdays is optimally chosen, whereas...

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Estimating the welfare costs of autarky : a sufficient statistics approach

Esposito, Federico - In: Economics letters 194 (2020), pp. 1-3

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Education, redistributive taxation and confidence

Konrad, Kai A. (contributor); Spadaro, Amedeo (contributor) - 2005

redistribution among young individuals. …

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Consumption smoothing and the structure of labor and credit markets

Bertola, Giuseppe (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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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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Are people inequality averse, and do they prefer redistribution by the state? : evidence from German longitudinal data on life satisfaction

Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - 2002

We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state increases individual well-being. We find that Germans are...

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The welfare cost of inflation in Canada and the United states

Serletis, Apostolos; Yavari, Kazem - In: Economics letters 84 (2004) 2, pp. 199-204

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The costs of missing the millennium development goal on gender equity

Abu-Ghaida, Dina (contributor); Klasen, Stephan (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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