This paper explores how to optimally set tax and transfers when taxation authorities : (1) are uninformed about … market employment. We show that optimal redistribution in this environment involves distorting market employment upwards for …

market employment. In contrast to much of the optimal income taxation literature, we show that optimal redistribution in this …This paper explores how to optimally set tax and transfers when taxation authorities : (1) are uninformed about … income tax rate. We also show that workfare may also be used as part of an optimal redistribution program. …

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 …

redistribution from high to low ability households and correction of undersaving due to present-biasedness. Policies must comply with … incentive-compatibility constraints that restricts both how much income redistribution that can take place and how much savings …

This paper deals with optimal income taxation and relative consumption under a welfarist government that fully respects …

We characterize optimal redistributive taxation when individuals are heterogeneous in their skills and their values of …

We characterize optimal redistributive taxation when individuals are heterogeneous in their skills and their values of …