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Opportunity and inequality across generations

Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2022

We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment, applying dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection. We show that the program is successful in increasing employment and reducing social assistance....

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Opportunity and inequality across generations

Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2020

We analyze inequality and mobility across generations in a dynastic economy. Nurture, in terms of bequests and the schooling investment into the next generation, is observable but the draw of nature in terms of ability is hidden, stochastic and persistent across generations. We calibrate the...

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Opportunity and inequality across generations

Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2020

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Tough love for lazy kids : dynamic insurance and equal bequests

Slavík, Ctirad; Wiseman, Kevin - In: Review of economic dynamics 27 (2018), pp. 64-80

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Opportunity and inequality across generations

Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - In: Journal of public economics 208 (2022), pp. 1-33

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Taxation, information acquisition, and trade in decentralized markets : theory and test

Dang, Tri-Vi; Liu, Xiaoxi; Morath, Florian - 2022

This paper shows that a transaction tax makes trades in decentralized markets more information sensitive and enlarges the range of information costs for which the equilibrium exhibits private information acquisition and endogenous adverse selection. A transaction tax reduces the probability of...

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The macroeconomic effects of longevity risk under private and public insurance and asymmetric information

Heijdra, Ben J.; Jiang, Yang; Mierau, Jochen O. - 2017

We study the impact of a fully-funded social security system in an economy with heterogeneous consumers. The unobservability of individual health conditions leads to adverse selection in the private annuity market. Introducing social security - which is immune to adverse selection - affects...

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Asymmetric information, corporate myopia, and capital gains tax rates : an analysis of policy prescriptions

Chemmanur, Thomas J.; Ravid, Simon Abraham - In: Journal of financial intermediation 8 (1999) 3, pp. 205-231

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Optimal nonlinear income and inheritance taxation in an infinite horizon model with quasi-linear preference

Naitō, Hisahiro (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

This paper analyzes optimal nonlinear income and inheritance taxation by incorporating two types of models that were … information environment we characterize optimal income and inheritance taxation. This paper shows that, contrary to the general … perception that inheritance taxation should be progressive to some extent, the expected tax liability of those who have a higher …

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Information Asymmetry and Gift Tax in Ghana

Gatsi, John G. - 2011

Gift tax has been in the Ghanaian Tax Laws since 1975 but collection from this source is very limited. Information asymmetry is a major problem since many potential recipients of taxable gifts are not aware of the tax. Double taxation is now a serious debate when discussing gift tax. Tax...

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