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A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfarist social welfare function with weights decreasing with income. However, high transfer withdrawal rates in many countries imply very low weights for the working poor in practice. We reconcile...
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regulation affects income inequality and service quality. Using individual-level data from the German microcensus for the years … increase in inequality is associated with a deterioration of service quality. The reform reduced average scores of a peer …
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regulation affects income inequality and service quality. Using individual-level data from the German microcensus for the years … increase in inequality is associated with a deterioration of service quality. The reform reduced average scores of a peer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011908090
A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfarist social welfare function with weights decreasing with income. However, high transfer withdrawal rates in many countries imply very low weights for the working poor in practice. We reconcile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011721857
A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfarist social welfare function with weights decreasing with income. However, high transfer withdrawal rates in many countries imply very low weights for the working poor in practice. We reconcile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011729364
A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfarist social welfare function with weights decreasing with income. However, high transfer withdrawal rates in many countries imply very low weights for the working poor in practice. We reconcile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795302
deserve tax breaks. We demonstrate that the German tax-transfer system conflicts with a welfarist inequality averse social … planner. It is consistent with a planner who is averse to both inequality and high tax liabilities. The tax-transfer schedule … European countries and the USA and show that their redistributive systems can be rationalized with an inequality averse social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012876120
A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfarist social welfare function with weights decreasing with income. However, high transfer withdrawal rates in many countries imply very low weights for the working poor in practice. We reconcile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011721431
regulation affects income inequality and service quality. Using individual-level data from the German microcensus for the years … increase in inequality is associated with a deterioration of service quality. The reform reduced average scores of a peer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011907108
regulation affects income inequality and service quality. Using individual-level data from the German microcensus for the years … increase in inequality is associated with a deterioration of service quality. The reform reduced average scores of a peer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129943