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Having it all, for all : child-care subsidies and income distribution reconciled

Barigozzi, Francesca; Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2019

optimal uniform subsidy is lower than the "Pigouvian" level. Conversely, under a non-linear policy the first-best "Pigouvian …" rule for the (marginal) subsidy on informal care is reestablished. While the share of high career mothers continues to be …

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Maximum fee vs. child benefit : a welfare analysis of Swedish child-care fee reform

Brink, Anna (contributor); Nordblom, Katarina (contributor); … - 2007

The effects of a recent Swedish child-care fee reform are compared with those of an alternative reform, increased child benefits. The fee reform implied considerably decreased fees and was intended to increase both labor supply among parents and their economic well-being. We estimate labor...

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Higher tax and less work : an optimal response to relative income concern

FitzRoy, Felix R.; Jin, Jim Y.; Nolan, Michael A. - 2019

There is much evidence that relative income concern reduces subjective wellbeing and raises labour supply - "keeping up with the Joneses" (KUJ), while increasing use of social media and growing inequality encourage comparison. Models with one or two agent-types generally miss the policy relevant...

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How should capital be taxed? : theory and evidence from Sweden

Bastani, Spencer; Waldenström, Daniel - 2018

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the role of capital taxation in advanced economies with a focus on the Swedish experience. We synthesize the existing theoretical literature, present facts about the capital stock and its distribution, review current capital tax practices and...

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Growth and inequality in public good games

Gächter, Simon; Mengel, Friederike; Tsakas, Elias; … - 2014

In a novel experimental design we study public good games with dynamic interdependencies. Each agent's income at the end of a period serves as her endowment in the following period. In this setting growth and inequality arise endogenously allowing us to address new questions regarding their...

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Inequality, inequity aversion, and the provision of public goods

Kölle, Felix; Sliwka, Dirk; Zhou, Nannan - 2011

We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a public good when agents are inequity averse and may differ in ability. We show that equality may lead to a reduction of public good provision below levels generated by purely selfish agents. But introducing...

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Inequality, institutions and cooperation

Markussen, Thomas; Sharma, Smriti; Singhal, Saurabh; … - 2020

We examine the effects of randomly introduced economic inequality on voluntary co- operation and whether this relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large-scale lab-in-the-field public goods experiment with...

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In-work policies in Europe : killing two birds with one stone?

Bargain, Olivier (contributor); Orsini, Kristian (contributor) - 2004

Earning an income is probably the best way of avoiding poverty and social exclusion, hence the recent trend of promoting employment through in-work transfers in OECD countries. Yet, the relative consensus on the need for 'making work pay' policies is muddied by a number of concerns relative to...

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A forgotten issue : distributional effects of day care subsidies in Germany

Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Spieß, C. Katharina; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000

öffentlichen Förderung von Kinderbetreuung. Eine solche Unkenntnis über die Verteilungseffekte der öffentlichen Förderung von … Kinderbetreuung kann jedoch dazu führen, dass Einkommensgruppen öffentliche Mittel in Anspruch nehmen, die dieser Gelder nicht …-Förderung" nur sehr geringe Umverteilungswirkungen erzielt werden. Vorrangig kommen die Subventionen im Bereich der Kinderbetreuung …

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Smooth income tax schedules : derivation and consequences

Estévez Schwarz, Diana; Sommer, Eric - 2018

Existing tax schedules are often overly complex and characterized by discontinuities in the marginal tax burden. In this paper we propose a class of progressive smooth functions to replace personal income tax schedules. These functions depend only on three meaningful parameters, and avoid the...

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