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Optimal disability assistance when fraud and stigma matter
Jacquet, Laurence - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2006
stigma disutility increases with the number of non-disabled recipients. Tagging transfers according to disability … work due to either disability or distaste for work. Taxpayers have resentment against inactive benefit recipients because … characteristics decreases stigma. However, tagging is costly and imperfect. In this context, I show how the level of the per capita …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005688550
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Institutions and labor market outcomes in the Netherlands
Gautier, Pieter A.; van der Klaauw, Bas - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2009
and Dutch workers have relatively low working hours. Disability is high, particularly among young individuals. We discuss …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502567
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Assessing Welfare Accounts
Fölster, Stefan; Gidehag, Robert; Orszag, Mike; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
The paper examines the possible effects of introducing a large-scale welfare reform in Sweden, namely, the introduction of comprehensive welfare accounts. Under this policy, individuals make mandatory contributions to accounts, which they can top up with voluntary contributions. In return,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233864
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Work Requirements and Income Maintenance Programs
Shapiro, Joel - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2003
compare the resulting benefit schedules with those of programs found in the United States since Welfare Reform (1996). We find … programs closely resemble a Negative Income Tax with a Benefit Reduction Rate that depends on the distribution of population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547166
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An Optimal Tax System
Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
A notable feature and principal virtue of Tax by Design is its system-wide perspective on different elements of the tax system. This review essay builds on this trait and offers a more explicit foundation for the report's general approach, drawing on a distribution-neutral methodology that is...
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Investment complementarities, coordination failure, and the role and effects of public investment policy
Kasahara, Tetsuya - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2013
This paper analyzes the role and effects of public investment policy when coordination problems among agents can result in individually rational but socially inefficient investment decisions. Developing a coordination investment model in which individuals simultaneously and independently...
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A formula for the optimal taxation in Probabilistic Voting Models characterized by Single Mindedness
Canegrati, Emanuele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This work intends to specify a formula for the optimal taxation in Probabilistic Voting Models with Single Mindedness Theory. The goal is to find an equivalent expression to the Ramsey’s rule for a political economy environment where Governments are assumed to be Leviathans rather than...
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Optimal Income Taxation and Social Norms in the Labor Market
Aronsson, Thomas; Sjögren, Tomas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2006
This paper concerns optimal income taxation in a two-type model extended to allow for social interaction and social norms in the labor market. One type of norm relates to the hours of work among the employed, and we assume that there is a cost associated with deviating from 'normal behavior'...
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Anatomy of Policy Complementarities
Orszag, J. Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
The analysis provides a new explanation for two widespread problems concerning European unemployment policy: the disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment, and the political difficulties in implementing more extensive reform programs. We argue that the heart of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763705
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Income maintenance programs and multidimensional screening
Shapiro, Joel - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2001
individuals unobservable, and compare the resulting benefit schedules with those of programs found in the United States since … Welfare Reform (1996). We find that optimal programs closely resemble a Negative Income Tax with a Benefit Reduction rate that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772582