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Replicator evolution of welfare stigma : welfare fraud vs. incomplete take-up

Itaya, Jun-ichi; Kurita, Kenichi - 2020

There are two important problems in welfare benefit programs: the prevalence of welfare fraud, in which ineligible … coexistence of welfare fraud and incomplete take-up is unstable in the model of statistical discrimination view welfare stigma … the tax-payer resentment view welfare stigma suggested by Besley and Coate (1992). We find multiple stable equilibria in …

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Corporate taxation and the welfare state

Keuschnigg, Christian - 2009

The paper compares the impact of corporate taxation and social insurance on foreign direct investment (FDI) and unemployment. Four main results are derived: (i) the optimal size of the welfare state depends on the degree of risk-aversion and the unemployment rate as a measure of labor income...

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Anatomy of policy complementarities

Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 1999

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...

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New Monetary System

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Optimal Income Transfers

Kaplow, Louis - 2006

A substantial literature addresses the design of transfer programs and policies, including the negative income tax, other means-tested transfers, the earned income tax credit, categorical assistance, and work inducements. This work is largely independent of that on the optimal nonlinear income...

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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...

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Corporate Taxation and the Welfare State

Keuschnigg, Christian - 2009

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Optimal Taxation of Families : Mirrlees Meets Becker

Kurnaz, Musab - 2020

This paper studies the optimal taxation of families in an environment in which (i) potential parents differ by their labor productivity and child-bearing preference, which are only observable by the family, and (ii) child-rearing requires both goods and parental time. Potential parents...

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Investing in the Youngest : The Optimal Child Care Policy

Carta, Francesca - 2013

The aim of the paper is to characterize the optimal child care policies (subsidies and state provision), assuming that child care provision affects the child's future abilities. Public intervention is needed since two sources of economic inefficiency are contemporaneously influential: parents do...

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Leveraging wage subsidies to facilitate fair wages and increase social welfare

Blumḳin, Tomer; Pinhas, Haim; Zultan, Ro'i - 2017 - This version: May 31, 2017

Wage subsidies can be provided directly to the worker, as in the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) program. They can also be provided indirectly by subsidizing the employer; by reducing the cost of labor, employers are induced to offer higher wages. The standard literature stipulates that...

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