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Taxes and Employment Subsidies in Optimal Redistribution Programs (Revised Version)
Beaudry, Paul; Blackorby, Charles; Szalay, Dezso - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2006
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005368614
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Taxes and Employment Subsidies in Optimal Redistribution Programs
Beaudry, Paul; Blackorby, Charles - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2006
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005178309
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Study on the Impacts of Fiscal Devaluation
Netherlands, CPB; CAPP - General Directorate Taxation and Custom Union, European … - 2013
The main research question of the project is summarized as: What are the macroeconomic and distributional consequences of fiscal devaluation for a selection of countries and the EU as a whole? The selected countries are France, Italy, Spain and Austria. The project aims to perform four tasks: 1....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010668398
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307275
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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 - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268596
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010508515
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Labor supply, taxation and the use of the tax revenues : a real-effort experiment in Canada, France, and Germany
Keser, Claudia; Masclet, David; Montmarquette, Claude - 2019
there may exist any country differences in attitude toward taxation and redistribution. We find that effort is significantly …-effort game that vary in the degree of redistribution. At one extreme, the Leviathan scenario, where no tax revenue is … higher in the redistribution treatment than the Leviathan treatment. Tax revenue is the highest in the redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012036676
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Anatomy of Policy Complementarities
Orszag, J. Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998
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/10005419509
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Fiscal Implications of Aids in South Africa
Johansson, Lars - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2006
health care cost saving effect. I also explore different taxation policies. The households would be willing to sacrifice an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419557
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Promotion rat race and public policy
Bjertnæs, Geir H. - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2012
This study investigates whether excess effort to climb a career ladder justifies policy interventions. The answer depends on whether the government is able to levy a higher tax burden on career workers than on non-career workers. Both a tax on top income aimed at lowering the rewards of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010678268