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The Objections against Workfare Revised
Lohse, Tim - In: Review of Economics 65 (2014) 1, pp. 95-118
Opponents of work obligations in return for transfer payments argue that workfare can crowd out private sector work …, that workfare harms the welfare of the poor and thereby reduces a society’s welfare in general. This paper analyzes these … objections against workfare in a discrete optimal income tax model. Workfare productivity emerges to be the crucial determinant …
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Measuring the marginal efficiency cost of redistribution in the UK
Adam, Stuart - 2005
This paper estimates the marginal efficiency cost of redistribution (MECR) associated with a demogrant and an in-work benefit for the UK since 1979, taking account of extensive as well as intensive labour supply responses. The principal methodological advance in the paper is its greater...
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A Public Finance Perspective on Climate Policy: Six Interactions That May Enhance Welfare
Siegmeier, Jan; Mattauch, Linus; Franks, Max; Klenert, David - 2015
Climate change economics mostly neglects sizeable interactions of carbon pricing with other fiscal policy instruments. Conversely, public finance typically overlooks the effects of future decarbonization efforts when devising instruments for the major goals of fiscal policy. We argue that such a...
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Optimal nonlinear redistributive taxation and public good provision in an economy with Veblen effects
Micheletto, Luca - 2009
This paper deals with the consequences of the assumption of negatively interdependent preferences for the shape of the optimal nonlinear income tax and the effcient level of public good provision in a setting where the policy maker maximizes an inequality averse social welfare function and the...
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International tax coordination : regionalism versus globalism
Sørensen, Peter Birch - 2001
Tax competition for mobile capital can undermine the attempts of governments to redistribute income from rich to poor. I study whether international tax coordination can alleviate this problem, using a general equilibrium model synthesizing recent contributions to the tax competition literature....
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Redistribution and insurance with simple tax instruments ; presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, April 2015
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015
We analyze optimal taxation of labor and capital income in a life-cycle framework with idiosyncratic income risk. We provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is independent of the social welfare function and...
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Redistribution and insurance with simple tax instruments
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015
We analyze optimal taxation of labor and capital income in a life-cycle framework with idiosyncratic income risk. We provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is independent of the social welfare function and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283108
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Optimal redistributive taxation in a multi-externality model
Eckerstorfer, Paul - 2011
This paper extends the previous literature on optimal redistributive taxation in the presence of externalities to a multi-externality setting. While taxes on income and on 'clean' commodities are still unaffected by the externalities, which confirms previous results, I find that the existence of...
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Subsistence level and theory of the welfare state
Eichner, Thomas - 2015
In a broader sense the welfare state ex ante can be seen as a social insurance for life-time risks, and ex post as a redistribution mechanism of incomes. Sinn (1995) has developed a normative theory of the welfare state in this view. On a constitutional plain agents determine the amount of...
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Tax-benefit revealed redistributive preferences over time : Ireland 1987 - 2005
Bargain, Olivier; Keane, Claire - 2010
By inverting Saez (2002)'s model of optimal income taxation, we characterize the redistributive preferences of the Irish government between 1987 and 2005. The (marginal) social welfare function revealed by this approach is consistently comparable over time and show great stability despite...
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