This paper builds a single model that can be used to show efficiency and distributional effects of eight different … approaches can be designed to have the same efficiency effects, even while they have different distributional effects. For … efficiency, enforcement capabilities, and political feasibility). The paper ends with a discussion of likely trade-offs among …

instruments. In a simple model with identical consumers, we show conditions under which the same efficiency can be attained by the … efficiency can again be obtained, but only if each person's gasoline tax rate can be made to depend on the characteristics of the …

the net effects on efficiency of each of these changes in capital income taxation. Under the new view that dividend taxes … generate improvements in efficiency. Under the old view that dividend taxes are important, however, these changes all increase … efficiency for a wide range of values for other parameters in the model …

This paper deals with the labor market entrance of young people in the Federal Republic" of Germany. The main focus is … on failures during this stage. First, an overview of the youth" labor market in Germany is given. Then, the transition …

The evolution of unemployment in West Germany and the U. S. stands in sharp contrast, with German unemployment much … big difference berween the two countries is that there is no feedback from wages to prices in Germany, and so high … unemployment does not put downward pressure on the inflation rate. During the 19705 and 19805 in Germany there emerged a growing …

This paper presents a theoretical model dealing with the duration of youth unemployment in West Germany. Duration can …