Razin, Assaf; Sadka, Efraim; Suwankiri, Benjarong - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
We develop a dynamic politico-economic theory of welfare state, featuring three groups of voters: skilled workers, unskilled workers, and old retirees. The welfare-state is modeled by a proportional tax on labor income to finance a demogrant in a balanced-budget manner to capture the essence of...