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transfers and public goods are each integrated into a common optimal tax framework with the income tax and commodity taxes at …
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. Second, when the currency union faces a crisis, a universal basic income funded by increases in different taxes is more …
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respect to the standard one's. In each model, a paternalistic government taxes the consumer and transfers him additional merit …
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. The estimates presented in this study incorporate a comprehensive accounting of all OASI taxes and benefits and blend … historical administrative data with tax and benefit projections. Projected taxes and benefits are consistent with the detailed … transfers to early cohorts. This paper - describes the methods used in this analysis to develop program and cohort outcomes …
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This paper analyses the role of social safety nets in the form of redistributional transfers and wage subsidies. It is … choice, wage subsidies may be better than pure transfers. Using a simple growth model, the optimal size of the public welfare … program is found and it is argued that public welfare should be financed with income (not lump-sum) taxes, despite the fact …
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in-kind transfers from their children to a value of between 22% and 86% of what the child receives in EMA. This means we …
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-kind transfers from their child to a value between £7.80 and £20.10 per week. We therefore argue that making this cash transfer …
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and need makes giving a contribution to a pure public good for which efficient public transfers crowd out private gifts …
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In this paper we explore whether the constitutional text has any practical meaning for welfare policy. To examine the empirical importance of the constitution, we first constructed for 68 countries an index of constitutional commitment to social security in five areas: Old Age, disability and...
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This paper surveys the literature on the political economy of social security. We review models that address the following questions: (i) Why do social security programs that transfer resources from young and middle-aged workers to the elderly exist? (ii) What are the economic and political...
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