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Deserving poor and the desirability of minimum wage rules
Blumḳin, Tomer; Danziger, Leif - 2014
In this paper we provide a novel justification for the use of minimum wage rules to supplement the optimal tax-and-transfer system. We demonstrate that if labor supply decisions are concentrated along the intensive margin and employment is efficiently rationed, a minimum wage rule can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337632
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Income inequality and the size of government : a causal analysis
Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin - 2019
Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from the problem of endogeneity of government size with respect to the distribution of income. Studying 30 European countries over the period 2004-2015, we apply instrumental variable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012151150
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Income inequality and the size of government : a causal analysis
Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin - 2018
Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from the problem of endogeneity of government size with respect to the distribution of income. Studying 30 European countries over the period 2004-2015, we apply instrumental variable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955505
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Income Inequality and the Size of Government : A Causal Analysis
Guzi, Martin - 2019
Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from the problem of endogeneity of government size with respect to the distribution of income. Studying 30 European countries over the period 2004-2015, we apply instrumental variable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894558
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Labor migration and the case for flat tax
Blumḳin, Tomer; Tsadḳah, Efrayim; Shem-Tov, Yotam - 2011
to a flat (inferior) regime is not too welfare-costly, even when the extent of re-distribution is significant. Therefore … redistribution. -- flat tax ; re-distribution ; migration ; tax-competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009130229
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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth
Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006
This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic … voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory concentrates on lump-sum voluntary transfers, individual or collective … altruistic transfers by Pareto-efficient public redistribution. The chapter is organized as follows. Section 2 presents an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023678
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Taxing children: the re-distributive role of child benefits - revisited
Blumḳin, Tomer; Margaliyot, Yoram; Tsadḳah, Efrayim - 2010
the total benefits to decline with the number of children) is socially optimal. -- child allowance ; re-distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003940106
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Are user fees really regressive?
Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs - 2012
This paper studies the aggregate and distributional implications of introducing user fees for publicly provided excludable public goods into a model with consumption and income taxes. The setup is a neoclassical growth model where agents differ in earnings and second-best policy is chosen by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009571131
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Tuition fees, as user prices, and private incentives
Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs; … - 2016
This paper studies the aggregate and distributional implications of introducing tuition fees for public education services into a tax system with income and consumption taxes. The setup is a neoclassical growth model where agents differ in capital holdings. We show that the introduction of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011500172
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A Counter-Reply to Professors Bankman and Weisbach
Sanchirico, Chris William - 2011
In “A Critical Look at the Economic Argument for Taxing Only Labor Income,” I challenge the tax substitution argument, which according to accepted wisdom fairly establishes that it is best to tax only labor earnings. A portion of Critical Look is directed at Professors Bankman and Weisbach's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121690