I examine the question whether social insurance is an appropriate means of redistribution in the presence of an …

revenue, which is spent for public goods (including education) and transfers (for poverty reduction). The efficient design of … the education system (by private and public education investments) determines the quality of the human capital stock as … redistribution of income is connected with serious disincentives, influencing the preferences for work and leisure as well as for …

This dissertation explores the role of efficiency of redistributive institutions (ERI)on redistribution. The first … between incomeinequality and redistribution. This chapter first shows that even exogenously given ERIaffects the relationship … between income inequality and redistribution. Then, it introducesthree specifications to endogenize ERI. In these various …

Taxation and Public Education Expenditure," I study the determinants of cross-country differences in intergenerational earnings … public expenditure on tertiary education. I then develop an intergenerational life-cycle model of human capital accumulation … and earnings, which features progressive taxation, public education expenditure, and borrowing constraints among the …

that increased mobility of production factors will pose a severe threat to redistribution possibility is less acute than it …

Statistical income surveys are used to document systemic changes in distribution and redistribution of household income … (numbers of active earners and children, age) to socio-economic factors (education, branch, occupation) are displayed. The … fourth part documents the increased redistribution of income achieved through taxes and social benefits. The fifth part …

The question of who benefits and who loses from the transition, the channels and mechanisms of redistribution of wealth … in the post-communist period, and the relation between redistribution and monetary regime are, in our opinion … between the dynamics of redistribution and the change in monetary regime. This is presented in Part 2 and is discussed in Part …

create a “simulated tax redistribution index”, which captures the mechanical impact of the changes in tax policy on the gini … coefficient, but is exogenous to any behavioral response. Analyzing the effect of this redistribution index on inequality, I find … process further, I create a new class of tax redistribution measures, based on the S-Gini, which differentially weight effects …

period, and inequality is persistent. Inflation in our model is a mechanism of redistribution, and we find that the link …

efficiency losses without achieving any net redistribution. …