increases, inequality decreases and tax revenues slightly increase. …

study the economic effects of introducing two elements of a fiscal union: Firstly, an EU-wide tax and transfer system and … secondly, an EU-wide system of fiscal equalisation. Using the European tax-benefit calculator EUROMOD, we exploit … tax and transfer systems by a European system would lead to significant redistributive effects both within and across …

study the economic effects of introducing two elements of a fiscal union: Firstly, an EU-wide tax and transfer system and … secondly, an EU-wide system of fiscal equalisation. Using the European tax-benefit calculator EUROMOD, we exploit … tax and transfer systems by a European system would lead to significant redistributive effects both within and across …

study the economic effects of introducing two elements of a fiscal union: Firstly, an EU-wide tax and transfer system and … secondly, an EU-wide system of fiscal equalisation. Using the European tax-benefit calculator EUROMOD, we exploit … tax and transfer systems by a European system would lead to significant redistributive effects both within and across …

. This paper investigates the importance of incentives inherent in the tax-benefit system for the individual decision to take … incentives at the extensive margin measured by the Participation Tax Rate (PTR), particularly for low-income individuals. Work …

. This paper investigates the importance of incentives inherent in the tax-benefit system for the individual decision to take … incentives at the extensive margin measured by the Participation Tax Rate (PTR), particularly for low income individuals. Work …

. This paper investigates the importance of incentives inherent in the tax-benefit system for the individual decision to take … incentives at the extensive margin measured by the Participation Tax Rate (PTR), particularly for low-income individuals. Work …

Using a calibrated overlapping generations model we quantify the welfare gains of an age dependent income tax. Agents … switching from an age-independent to an age-dependent nonlinear tax amounts in our benchmark model to around three percent of … opposed to a linear tax are even larger. Surprisingly, it is of secondary importance to optimally choose the tax on interest …