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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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Optimal wage redistribution in the presence of adverse selection in the labor market

Bastani, Spencer; Blumḳin, Tomer; Micheletto, Luca - 2015

In this paper we allude to a novel role played by the non-linear income tax system in the presence of adverse selection in the labor market due to asymmetric information between workers and firms. We show that an appropriate choice of the tax schedule enables the government to affect the wage...

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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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Spatial income inequality in India, 1993-2011 : a district level decomposition

Azam, Mehtabul; Bhatt, Vipul - 2016

Using nationally representative household survey data, and district and state as two levels of aggregation, we examine role of individual and geographical factors in determining the level and the change in income inequality in India. We find that between-state income differences account for the...

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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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Human capital and optimal redistribution

Koeniger, Winfried; Prat, Julien - 2014

We characterize optimal redistribution in a dynastic family model with human capital. We show how a government can …

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Deserving poor and the desirability of a minimum wage

Blumḳin, Tomer; Danziger, Leif - 2014

This paper provides a novel justification for using a minimum wage to supplement an optimal tax-and-transfer system. We demonstrate that if labor supply decisions are concentrated along the intensive margin and employment is efficiently rationed, a minimum wage can be socially beneficial by...

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The pure effect of social preferences on regional location choices : the evolving dynamics of convergence to a steady state population distribution

Stark, Oded; Budziński, Wiktor; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2019

This paper tracks the consequences of individuals' desire to align their location with their social preferences. The social preference studied in the paper is distaste for relative deprivation, measured in a cardinal manner. Location is conceived as social space, with individuals choosing to...

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The regional distribution of public employment : theory and evidence

Kessing, Sebastian; Strozzi, Chiara - 2012

We analyze the optimal regional pattern of public employment in an information-constrained second-best redistribution … ; redistribution ; regional inequality ; European regions …

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Geographies of socio-economic inequality

Ham, Maarten van; Manley, David; Tammaru, Tiit - 2022

Over many decades, academics, policymakers and governments have been concerned with both the presence of inequalities and the impacts these can have on people when concentrated spatially in urban areas. This concern is especially related to the influence of spatial inequalities on individual...

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