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Poverty orderings and intra-household inequality: The Lost Axiom

Peluso, Eugenio; Trannoy, Alain - In: Journal of Income Distribution 18 (2009) 3-4, pp. 24-33

We investigate under which conditions it is possible to infer the evolution of poverty at the individual level from the … knowledge of poverty among households. Poverty measurement is approached by the poverty orderings introduced by Foster and … results in terms of preservation of poverty orderings. We point out the main analogies and differences between inequality and …

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When Kolm Meets Mirrless: ELIE

Trannoy, Alain; Simula, Laurent - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 2008

This article discusses the properties of Kolm’s ELIE proposal in the Context of optimal income taxation “à la Mirrlees”. It first shows that ELIE gives rise to non-standard type-dependent budget sets, which has important implications in terms of a minimum labour requirement. Second, it...

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An Exploration of Incentive-Compatible ELIE

Simula, Laurent; Trannoy, Alain - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 2008

Simula and Trannoy (2007) have shown that ELIE is confronted with implementation issues when the policymaker cannot observe the time worked by every individual. This paper tries to fix this problem. To this aim, it characterizes the second-best allocations which are the closest to ELIE (i) in...

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Tel père, tel fils : l’influence de l'origine sociale et familiale sur la santé des descendants en Europe

Trannoy, Alain; Tubeuf, Sandy; Jusot, Florence - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009

This article analyses unequal opportunities for health related to original class and family background in Europe. The literature has recently highlighted the influence of original class background on health in adulthood and the existence of transmission between the generations. The data from the...

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Origine sociale et état de santé des parents : Quelle influence sur l’état de santé à l’âge adulte ?

Devaux, Marion; Jusot, Florence; Rochaix, Lise; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2007

Parmi les facteurs explicatifs proposés pour expliquer les inégalités sociales de santé, la littérature épidémiologique a récemment mis en avant l’influence du milieu social d’origine sur l’état de santé à l’âge adulte, cette influence résultant à la fois d’un effet...

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Tax Me If You Can! Optimal Nonlinear Income Tax between Competing Governments

Lehmann, Etienne; Simula, Laurent; Trannoy, Alain - CESifo - 2013

We investigate how the optimal nonlinear income tax schedule is modified when taxpayers can evade taxation by emigrating. We consider two symmetric countries with Maximin governments. Workers choose their labor supply along the intensive margin. The skill distribution is continuous, and, for...

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Optimal Non-Linear Income Tax when Highly Skilled Individuals Vote with their Feet

Simula, Laurent; Trannoy, Alain - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 2006

In this paper, individuals, initially living in a Mirrleesian economy A, have outside options consisting in settling down in a laissez-faire country B while paying positive migration costs. We first examine the impact of the threat of migration, assuming participation constraints are taken into...

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Optimal Student Loans and Graduate Tax under Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection

Gary-Bobo, Robert J.; Trannoy, Alain - CESifo - 2013

We completely characterize the set of second-best optimal “menus”of student-loan contracts in a simple economy with risky labour-market outcomes, adverse selection, moral hazard and risk aversion. The model combines structured student loans and an elementary optimal income-tax problem à la...

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Is the Flat Tax Optimal under Income Risk?

Henriet, Dominique; Pintus, Patrick; Trannoy, Alain - 2014

We derive testable conditions ensuring that the income tax is optimal when agents are ex-ante identical but face idiosyncratic income risk. The optimal tax depends positively on both absolute risk aversion and risk variance and negatively on labor supply elasticity and absolute prudence. The...

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Optimal Income Tax under the Threat of Migration by Top-Income Earners

Trannoy, Alain; Simula, Laurent - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2009

We examine how allowing individuals to emigrate to pay lower taxes changes the optimal nonlinear income tax scheme in a Mirrleesian economy. An individual emigrates if his domestic utility is less than his utility abroad, net of migration costs – utilities and costs both depending on...

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