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Relative Consumption Concerns and the Optimal Tax Mix

Eckerstorfer, Paul - 2011

This articles studies the optimal tax mix (taxes on income and commodities) under asymmetric information in a two-type model, when individuals make relative consumption comparisons. The model includes both positional and nonpositional goods, taking into account the fact that relative concerns...

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Expanding the welfare system: a proposal for reform

Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - In: The welfare state in Europe: Challenges and reforms, (pp. 101-117). 1998

accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital … account (covering education and training), and a health account (covering insurance against sickness and disability). Instead … may be expected to play a substantial role in reducing unemployment, encouraging labour force participation, promoting …

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The Unemployment Challenge in Europe

Nickell, Stephen - In: CESifo Forum 11 (2010) 1, pp. 3-6

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Unemployment Crisis - Challenge and Opportunity

Ljungqvist, Lars - In: CESifo Forum 11 (2010) 1, pp. 7-13

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Screening through activation: Differential effects of a youth activation programme

Hall, Caroline King Barnard; Kotakorpi, Kaisa; … - 2016

traditional predictors of poor labour market outcomes (e.g. education and school dropout status), we find a strong concentration …

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On the political economics of tax reforms

Castanheira, Micael; Nicodème, Gaëtan; Profeta, Paola - 2011

There is often a gap between the prescriptions of an optimal tax system and actual tax systems, some of which can be neither efficient economically nor efficient at redistributing income. With a focus on personal income taxes, this paper reviews the political economics literature on tax systems...

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Agency in family policy : a survey

Cigno, Alessandro - 2009

Given that young children are under the control of their parents, if the government has an interest in either the welfare or the productivity of the former, it has no option but to act through the latter. Parents are, in the ordinary sense of the word, the government’s agents. They are agents...

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Should Diesel cars in Europe be discouraged?

Mayeres, Inge; Proost, Stef - 2001

This paper examines the rationale for the different tax treatment of gasoline and diesel cars currently observed in Europe. First, we analyse possible justifications for a different tax treatment: pure tax revenue considerations, externality cons0iderations and constraints on the tax instruments...

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A comparison of optimal tax policies when compensation or responsibility matter

Jacquet, Laurence; van de Gaer, Dirk - 2010

This paper examines optimal redistribution in a model with high- and low-skilled individuals with heterogeneous tastes for labor. We compare the extent to which optimal policies based on different normative criteria obey the principles of compensation (for differential skills) and responsibility...

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Immigrants and Unemployment in the European Community: From the Eyes of Natives

Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 1999

This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the …-born workers? assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of … immigrants and unemployment among native-born workers. …

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