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The perception of distributive fairness and optimal taxation under uncertainty

Weinreich, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper incorporates a preference for distributive fairness (inequity aversion) into the analysis on optimal redistributive taxation under uncertainty. We can show that introducing or strengthening the taste for distributive fairness does not affect the socially optimal tax rate (social...

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Normative Analysis with Societal Constraints

Boadway, Robin; Martineau, Nicolas-Guillaume - CESifo - 2013

This paper examines the question of achieving a societal consensus around redistributive policies. Its extent is measured by the degree of work participation among the different skill classes that populate the economy. This consensus is driven both by the material incentives and heterogeneous...

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Comparing Inequality Aversion across Countries When Labor Supply Responses Differ

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Neumann, Dirk; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We analyze to which extent social inequality aversion differs across nations when control- ling for actual country differences in labor supply responses. Towards this aim, we estimate labor supply elasticities at both extensive and intensive margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same...

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On Income Inequality and Green Preferences

Marsiliani, Laura; Renström, Thomas I - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We derive conditions of individual preferences and technology that give rise to a negative correlation between income inequality and environmental protection. We present a class of models (which captures a static model as well as an overlapping-generations model) in which individuals differ in...

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Optimal Incentives for Labor Force Participation.

Chone, P.; Laroque, G. - 2001

Optimal taxation is analysed under a Rawlsian criterion in an economy where the only decision of the agents is to participate, or not, to the labour force. The model allows for heterogeneity both in the agent's productivities and aversions to work.

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Tax-Benefit Systems in Europe and the US: Between Equity and Efficiency

Olivier, BARGAIN; Mathias, DOLLS; Dirk, NEUMANN; … - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2011

Whether observed di¤erences in redistributive policies across countries are the result of di¤erences in social preferences or e¢ ciency constraints is an important question that paves the debate about the optimality of welfare regimes. To shed new light on this question, we estimate labor...

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Comparing Inequality Aversion across Countries When Labor Supply Responses Differ

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Neumann, Dirk; … - 2013

We analyze to which extent social inequality aversion differs across nations when control ling for actual country differences in labor supply responses. Towards this aim, we estimate labor supply elasticities at both extensive and intensive margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same...

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Fiscal Incidence, Fiscal Mobility and the Poor: a New Approach

Lustig, Nora; Higgins, Sean - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012

Taxes and transfers can have significant impacts on poverty and inequality. All standard measures are by definition … transfers can lower inequality and poverty (including the severity of poverty) but still make a subgroup of the poor worse off … when standard poverty and inequality indicators decline and overall taxes are progressive. …

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"Employment in Poland 2011 - Poverty and jobs"

Magda, Iga; Bukowski, Maciej; Buchholz, Sonia; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This edition is devoted to the issue of poverty. Growth of prosperity is not distributed evenly among the Polish … of poverty in general. However, in case the risk occurs, efficient and effective support measures should be provided …. First part of the report defines poverty, and explains the extent of the connection with such phenomena as economic …

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Trends in the Swedish Social Investment Welfare State: ‘The Enlightened Path’ or ‘The Third Way’ for ‘the Lions’?

Palme, Joakim palme; Cronert, Axel - Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid - Herman Deleeck, … - 2015

contributed to a number of positive outcomes, such as low poverty and high employment. However, our examination of more recent …

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