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Human Capital Flight : Impact of Migrationon Income and Growth

International Monetary Fund - 1994

This paper analyses the impact of government tax and subsidy policy on immigration of human capital and the effect of such immigration on growth and incomes. In the context of a two-country endogenous growth model with heterogeneous agents and human capital accumulation, we argue that human...

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Composition of Government Expenditure, Human Capital Accumulation, and Welfare

Matovu, John - 2000

This paper uses a dynamic general equilibrium model calibrated to Ugandan data to examine the welfare effects of alternative scenarios of government expenditure and tax financing. Two expenditure types are considered: social spending that affects human capital, and infrastructure expenditures...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399948

The Aging of the Population and the Size of the Welfare State

Swagel, Phillip - 2002

Data for the United States and countries in Western Europe indicate a negative correlation between the dependency ratio and both labor tax rates and the generosity of social transfers, after controlling for other factors that influence the size of the welfare state. This is despite the increased...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399587

Fiscal redistribution and social welfare

Coady, David P.; D'Angelo, Devin; Evans, Brooks - 2019

discussion of fiscal redistribution within the standard social welfare framework, which lends itself to a transparent and … practical evaluation of the extent and determinants of fiscal redistribution. Differences in fiscal redistribution are … determine the factors explaining differences in their fiscal redistribution and to discuss patterns in fiscal redistribution …

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Inequality and Optimal Redistributive Tax and Transfer Policies

Zee, Howell H. - 1999

This paper explores the revenue-raising aspect of progressive taxation and derives, on the basis of a simple model, the optimal degree of tax progressivity where the tax revenue is used exclusively to finance (perfectly) targeted transfers to the poor. The paper shows that not only would it be...

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Mortgage Market Development, Savings, and Growth

Li, Xiaowei - 2001

Jappelli and Pagano (1994) argues that tightening the borrowing constraints in the mortgage markets promotes savings. Employing a six-period overlapping generations model with endogenous growth and a method of simulation calibrated on the Middle East, this paper demonstrates that the above...

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Risk-Taking and Optimal Taxation with Nontradable Human Capital

Hu, Zuliu - 1992

What are the effects of taxation on individual/entrepreneurs’ risk-taking behavior? This paper re-examines this old question in a continuous time life-cycle model. We demonstrate that the stream of uncertain income from human capital has systematic effects on demand for the risky physical...

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Taxation and Endogenous Growth in Open Economies

Roubini, Nouriel - 1994

This paper examines the effects of taxation of human capital, physical capital and foreign assets in a multi-sector model of endogenous growth. It is shown that in general the growth rate is reduced by taxes on capital and labor (human capital) income. When the government faces no borrowing...

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Tax Burden and Migration : A Political Economy Perspective

Sadka, Efraim - 1997

The extent of taxation and redistribution policy is generally determined at a political-economy equilibrium by a … tax burden and less redistribution than no migration, even though the migrants join the pro-tax coalition …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403302

Transfers, Social Safety Nets, and Economic Growth

Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 1996

This paper analyses the role of social safety nets in the form of redistributional transfers and wage subsidies. It is argued that public welfare programs can be viewed as a crime-preventing or disruption-preventing devices because they tend to increase the opportunity cost of engaging in crime...

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