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Fölster, Stefan; Gidehag, Robert; Orszag, Jonathan Michael - 2002

The paper examines the possible effects of introducing a large-scale welfare reform in Sweden, namely, the introduction of comprehensive welfare accounts. Under this policy, individuals make mandatory contributions to accounts, which they can top up with voluntary contributions. In return,...

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Assessing Welfare Accounts

Fölster, Stefan; Gidehag, Robert; Orszag, Mike; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

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Redistribution and Insurance with Simple Tax Instruments

Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015

bound on optimal taxes: even for welfare functions that do not value redistribution, marginal tax rates are positive for all … income levels. Optimal capital taxes are significant and yield sizable welfare gains; in particular if labor income taxes are …

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Designing Efficient College and Tax Policies

Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015

the monetary returns in the form of income taxes. We study the policy implications of this fiscal externality in an …

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Shifting Taxes from Labor to Consumption: Efficient, but Regressive?

Pestel, Nico; Sommer, Eric - 2013

Shifting taxes from labor income to consumption is regularly suggested as a measure to induce work incentives. We … compensated by a revenue-neutral reduction in income-related taxes. Based on a dual data base and a microsimulation model of labor … on inequality and progressivity become substantially lower when payroll taxes are reduced, which is due to increased work …

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On the Inefficiency of Inequality

Schiff, Maurice - 2004

A number of studies have examined the implications of preference interdependence. This paper models utility as depending on other people?s consumption levels and shows that welfare declines with inequality, equilibrium inequality is inefficient, and the optimal intervention leads to a more equal...

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Privacy, time consistent optimal labor income taxation and education policy

Konrad, Kai A. - 1999

Incomplete information is a commitment device for time consistency problems. In the context of time consistent labor income taxation privacy can lead to a Pareto superior outcome and increases the effectiveness of public education as a second best policy.

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Human Capital Investment and Globalization in Extortionary States

Andersson, Fredrik; Konrad, Kai A. - 2001

This paper considers education investment and public education subsidies in closed and open economies with an extortionary government. The extortionary government in a closed economy has incentives to subsidize education in order to overcome a hold-up problem of time consistent taxation, similar...

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Globalization and Human Capital Formation

Andersson, Fredrik; Konrad, Kai A. - 2001

This paper compares education investment in closed and open economies without government and with a benevolent government. The fact that the time consistency problem in taxation can make labor mobility beneficial even if governments are fully benevolent – which is known from other contexts –...

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Union Strategy and Optimal Income Taxation

Kessing, Sebastian G.; Konrad, Kai A. - 2005

Restrictions on work hours are more important in countries with a large welfare state. We show that this empirical observation is consistent with the strategic effects of such restrictions in a welfare state in the context of optimal direct taxation in the tradition of Mirrlees (1971). Our...

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