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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...

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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...

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Income inequality and the size of government : a causal analysis

Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin - 2019

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Labor Migration and the Case for Flat Tax

Blumkin, Tomer - 2011

to a flat (inferior) regime is not too welfare-costly, even when the extent of re-distribution is significant. Therefore … redistribution …

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Labor migration and the case for flat tax

Blumḳin, Tomer; Tsadḳah, Efrayim; Shem-Ṭov, 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 …

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The impact of redistributive policies on inequality in OECD countries

Doerrenberg, Philipp; Peichl, Andreas - 2014

Due to behavioral effects triggered by redistributional interventions, it is still an open question whether government policies are able to effectively reduce income inequality. We contribute to this research question by using different country-level data sources to study inequality trends in...

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Tuition Fees, as User Prices, and Private Incentives

Economides, George - 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...

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Aspirations and Optimal Taxation : Lump-Sum and Proportional Taxes

Weber, Matthias - 2018

I provide a simple two-period model comparing lump-sum taxes with proportional labor taxes. The difference to the classical optimal taxation literature is that I introduce a behavioral twist according to which people's aspirations change from one period to another as suggested by empirical...

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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 …

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Fair and Efficient Taxation Under Partial Control : Theory and Evidence

Ooghe, Erwin - 2011

There is clear evidence that fairness plays a role in redistribution. Individuals want to compensate others for their …

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