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Inequality and Optimal Redistributive Tax and Transfer Policies
Zee, Howell H. - 2006
This paper explores the revenue-raising aspect of progressive taxation and derives, on the basis of a simple model, the optimal degree of tax progressivity where the tax revenue is used exclusively to finance (perfectly) targeted transfers to the poor. The paper shows that not only would it be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012782613
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Optimal Income Redistribution When Individual Welfare Depends Upon Relative Income
Boskin, Michael J.; Sheshinski, Eytan - 2021
The purpose of the present note is to explore the structure of optimal income taxation/redistribution in an economy where the welfare of individuals depends in part on relative after-tax consumption, i.e., we specify individual welfare as a function of absolute and relative after-tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013226590
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Optimal Income Redistribution When Individual Welfare Depends Upon Relative Income
Boskin, Michael J. - 1976
The purpose of the present note is to explore the structure of optimal income taxation/redistribution in an economy where the welfare of individuals depends in part on relative after-tax consumption, i.e., we specify individual welfare as a function of absolute and relative after-tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478985
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Social welfare effects of progressive income taxation under increasing inequality
Ranđelović, Saša; Vladisavljević, Marko - In: Prague economic papers : a bimonthly journal of … 29 (2020) 5, pp. 575-599
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012593649
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Optimal Income Taxes, Transfers and Inequality for an Atkinson-Based Social Welfare Function
Sattinger, Michael - 2022
By constructing a social welfare function that incorporates the explicit value judgments of Atkinson's measure of inequality, the paper develops implications of optimal income taxation derived using double limit analysis for transfers and inequality. The losses arising from transfers in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014237246
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Inequality and Optimal Redistributive Tax and Transfer Policies
Zee, Howell H. - 1999
This paper explores the revenue-raising aspect of progressive taxation and derives, on the basis of a simple model, the optimal degree of tax progressivity where the tax revenue is used exclusively to finance (perfectly) targeted transfers to the poor. The paper shows that not only would it be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400295
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Taxation, social welfare, and labor market frictions
Epstein, Brendan; Nunn, Ryan; Orak, Musa; Patel, Elena - In: European economic review : EER 151 (2023), pp. 1-20
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014235225
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The effect of the UK coalition government's tax and benefit changes on household incomes and work incentives
Adam, Stuart; Browne, James; Elming, William - In: Fiscal studies : the journal of the Institute for … 36 (2015) 3, pp. 375-402
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413349
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Tax-benefit systems, income distribution and work incentives in the European Union
Jara, H. Xavier; Tumino, Alberto - 2013
In this paper we study the impact of tax-benefit systems on income inequality and work incentives across the 27 Member … Tax Rates.The extent to which tax-benefit systems contribute to income redistribution and provide work incentives at the … of a trade-off between income redistribution and work incentives across EU-27 countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009738946
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Effects of tax-benefit policies on the income distribution and work incentives in Estonia
Paulus, Alari; Klein, Caroline - 2019
The paper studies the impact of tax-benefit policies on the distribution of household incomes and work incentives in …%), would have the highest first-order impact for a given fiscal cost. However, these measures would also weaken work incentives … incentives at low and middle-income levels together with modest reductions in poverty and inequality. This Working Paper relates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111111