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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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Progressing towards efficiency : the role for labor tax progression in reforming social security
Makarski, Krzysztof; Tyrowicz, Joanna; Komada, Oliwia - 2022
show that the progressive labor tax can partially substitute for the redistribution in social security, thus reducing the …
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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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Financial support for families with children and its trade-offs : balancing redistribution and parental work incentives
Myck, Michał; Kurowska, Anna; Kundera, Michał - 2013
the system of financial support for families with children. We focus on: 1) the trade-off between redistribution of income …
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Combining microsimulation and optimization to identify optimal flexible tax-transfer rules
Colombino, Ugo; Islam, Nizamul - 2020
We use a behavioural microsimulation model embedded in a numerical optimization procedure in order to identify optimal (social welfare maximizing) tax-transfer rules. We consider the class of tax-transfer rules consisting of a universal basic income and a tax defined by a 4th degree polynomial....
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The social tax : redistributive pressure and labor supply
Carranza Noguera, Eliana; Donald, Aletheia; Grosset, Florian - 2022
transfers do not decline, indicating no loss in redistribution. Our estimates imply a 9-14% social tax rate. The welfare … benefits of informal redistribution may come at a cost, depressing labor supply and productivity. …
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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 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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From unemployment benefits to unemployment accounts
Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
We explore the implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by unemployment accounts (UA). Under the UA system, employed people would be required to make ongoing contributions to their unemployment accounts, and the balances in these accounts would then be available to...
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Equilibrium worker-firm allocations and the deadweight losses of taxation
Bagger, Jesper; Moen, Espen R.; Vejlin, Rune Majlund - 2021
We analyse the deadweight losses of tax-induced labor misallocation in an equilibrium model of the labour market where workers search to climb a job ladder and firms post vacancies. Workers differ in abilities. Jobs differ in productivities and amenities. A planner uses affine tax functions to...
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