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The welfare state is not merely a stand-in for missing markets; it can do a whole lot more. When generations overlap and the young must borrow to make educational investments, a dynamically-efficient welfare state, by taxing the middle-aged and offering a compensatory old-age pension, can...
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This paper develops a theory of the two-armed intergenerational welfare state, consistent with key features of modern …
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The welfare state is not merely a stand-in for missing markets; it can do a whole lot more. When generations overlap and the young must borrow to make educational investments, a dynamically-efficient welfare state, by taxing the middle-aged and offering a compensatory old-age pension, can...
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and preferences) and thus be significantly affected by immigration affecting the distribution of characteristics … immigration, which may change the composition of the population in the ability and/or preference dimension. -- work incentives …
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-Samuelson result argues that, in theory, this is impossible. Later work has shown that it may be possible if agents, left on their own …
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