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Redistributive Taxation and Social Insurance
Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre - 2008
This paper studies the role of social insurance as a redistributive mechanism in the presence of an optimal (linear or general) income tax. It considers a second-best setting with two unobservable individual characteristics: ability, measured by the wage rate, and risk, measured by the...
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Non-linear taxation of bequests, equal sharing rules and the tradeoff between intra- and inter-family inequalities
Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre - In: Journal of public economics 79 (2001) 1, pp. 35-53
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Tagging and redistributive taxation
Boadway, Robin W.; Pestieau, Pierre - In: Annales d'économie et de statistique 83/84 (2006), pp. 123-147
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Tagging and redistributive taxation
Boadway, Robin W. (contributor);  … - 2005
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Intergenerational Mobility and Income Redistribution Under Majority Voting
Fan, C. Simon; Pang, Yu; Pestieau, Pierre - 2022
majority in democracies may not support massive redistribution for the sake of their children’s educational attainment and … children respond negatively to the extent of redistribution, and parental altruism discourages poor voters from expropriating …
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Chapter 57. Factor Mobility and Redistribution
Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 4, …, (pp. 2529-2560). 2004
This chapter reviews recent theoretical work on the effect of factor mobility and the ensuing tax competition on the capacity of governments to raise revenue and redistribute income. It focuses on three issues: the relevance and limitations of the race to the bottom result, the benefits and...
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Investment in local public services : Nash equilibrium and social optimum
Cremer, Helmuth - In: Journal of public economics 65 (1997) 1, pp. 23-35
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Arrow's theorem of the deductible and long-term care insurance
Drèze, Jacques H.; Pestieau, Pierre; Schokkaert, Erik - In: Economics letters 148 (2016), pp. 103-105
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Fair retirement under risky lifetime
Fleurbaey, Marc; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; … - In: International economic review 57 (2016) 1, pp. 177-210
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