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An experimental investigation of intrinsic motivations for giving

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2011

third one, T3, with a charity recipient and no crowding out, which elicits both types of altruism. We use T1 to assess to … intrinsic motivations for giving: warm glow and pure altruism. In particular, we implemented a within-subject experimental … towards the experimenters, (ii) the Crumpler and Grossman (2008) design, T2, in which the recipient is a charity, and the …

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Fiscal policy, economic integration and unemployment

Eggert, Wolfgang; Goerke, Laszlo - 2003

In this paper fiscal policy is examined for an open economy characterised by unemployment due to efficiency wages. We allow for capital and firm mobility in a model where the government chooses the level of wage, source-based capital and profit taxation. The taxing choices of governments are...

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Optimal taxation with capital accumulation and wage bargaining

Palokangas, Tapio - 2003

This study examines optimal taxation in a unionized economy in which households save capital. The main findings are as follows. Judd?s (1985) and Chamley?s (1986) classical results of zero taxation on capital income holds. This is true independently of workers? savings behaviour or the...

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On Vertically Challenged and Horizontal Equity : Reassessing Anti-Discrimination Rules

Sadka, Efraim; Margalioth, Yoram; Blumkin, Tomer - 2004

We consider a model of prejudice-driven discrimination, where the advantaged 'tall' discriminate against the disadvantaged 'short'. We employ an egalitarian social welfare function to compare anti-discrimination legal rules with a non-discriminatory ('height-blind') income tax.

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The Complexity of Economic Policy: I. Restricted Local Optima in Tax Policy Design

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002

Economists traditionally tackle normative problems by computing optimal policy, i.e. the one that maximizes a social welfare function. In practice, however, a succession of marginal changes to a limited number of policy instruments are implemented, until no further improvement is feasible. I...

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Gender based taxation and the division of family chores

Alesina, Alberto; Ichino, Andrea; Karabarbounis, Loukas - 2007

Gender Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey's optimal criterion by taxing less the more elastic labor supply of (married) women. This holds when different elasticities between men and women are taken as exogenous and primitive. But in this paper we also explore differences in gender...

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Efficient subsidization of human capital accumulation with overlapping generations and endogenous growth

Richter, Wolfram F.; Braun, Christoph - 2009

This paper studies second-best policies in an OLG model in which endogenous growth results from human capital accumulation. When young, individuals decide on education, saving, and nonqualified labour. When old, individuals supply qualified labour. Growth equilibria are inefficient in...

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How to deal with covert child labour, and give children an effective education, in a poor developing country

Cigno, Alessandro - 2011

As credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given that intra-family transfers, and the way a child uses her time outside school hours, are private information, the second-best policy makes school enrollment compulsory, forces overt child labour below its efficient level (if positive), and...

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Optimal redistributive taxation with both labor supply and labor demand responses

Jacquet, Laurence; Lehmann, Etienne; van der Linden, Bruno - 2011

This paper characterizes the optimal redistributive tax schedule in a matching unemployment framework with endogenous (voluntary) nonparticipation and (involuntary) unemployment. The optimal employment tax rate is given by an inverse employment elasticity rule. This rule depends on the global...

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Hidden Information Problems in the Design of Family Allowances

Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa; Pettini, Anna - 2003

We consider a case where some of the parents have higher ability to raise children than others. First-best policy gives both types of parents the same level of utility. If parental actions are not fully observable, however, the policy maker has to take into account the incentive-compatibility...

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