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Comparing inequality aversion across countries when labor supply responses differ
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Neumann, Dirk; … - 2013
We analyze to which extent social inequality aversion differs across nations when control- ling for actual country differences in labor supply responses. Towards this aim, we estimate labor supply elasticities at both extensive and intensive margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293213
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Tax-benefit systems in Europe and the US: Between equity and efficiency
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Neumann, Dirk; … - 2011
Whether observed differences in redistributive policies across countries are the result of differences in social preferences or efficiency constraints is an important question that paves the debate about the optimality of welfare regimes. To shed new light on this question, we estimate labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274595
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Comparing Inequality Aversion across Countries When Labor Supply Responses Differ
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Neumann, Dirk; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We analyze to which extent social inequality aversion differs across nations when control- ling for actual country differences in labor supply responses. Towards this aim, we estimate labor supply elasticities at both extensive and intensive margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010885181
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Tax-Benefit Systems in Europe and the US: Between Equity and Efficiency
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Neumann, Dirk; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Whether observed differences in redistributive policies across countries are the result of differences in social preferences or efficiency constraints is an important question that paves the debate about the optimality of welfare regimes. To shed new light on this question, we estimate labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008804899
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The Welfare State and Anti-Poverty Policy in Rich Countries
Marx, Ive; Nolan, Brian; Olivera, Javier - 2014
recent economic research on the welfare state and anti-poverty policy in rich countries, and explore their implications. We … begin with the conceptualisation and measurement of poverty, before sketching out some core features and approaches to the … welfare state and anti-poverty policies. We then focus on the central plank of the modern welfare state's efforts to address …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377307
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The Welfare State and Anti-Poverty Policy in Rich Countries
Marx, Ive; Nolan, Brian; Olivera, Javier - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
recent economic research on the welfare state and anti-poverty policy in rich countries, and explore their implications. We … begin with the conceptualisation and measurement of poverty, before sketching out some core features and approaches to the … welfare state and anti-poverty policies. We then focus on the central plank of the modern welfare state's efforts to address …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764623
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Relative income, redistribution and well-being
FitzRoy, Felix; Nolan, Michael - 2010
In a model with heterogeneous workers and both intensive and extensive margins of employment, we consider two systems of redistribution: a universal basic income, and a categorical unemployment benefit. Well-being depends on own-consumption relative to average employed workers' consumption, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274682
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Relative Income, Redistribution and Well-being
FitzRoy, Felix; Nolan, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
In a model with heterogeneous workers and both intensive and extensive margins of employment, we consider two systems of redistribution: a universal basic income, and a categorical unemployment benefit. Well-being depends on own-consumption relative to average employed workers’ consumption,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008682956
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Redistribution and Insurance with Simple Tax Instruments
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015
We analyze optimal taxation of labor and capital income in a life-cycle framework with idiosyncratic income risk. We provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is independent of the social welfare function and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307325
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Optimal Wage Redistribution in the Presence of Adverse Selection in the Labor Market
Bastani, Spencer; Blumkin, 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307364