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Wealth distribution and optimal inheritance taxation in life-cycle economies with intergenerational transfers
Heer, Burkhard - 2000
We introduce intergenerational transfers into a general equilihrium life-cycle model in order to explain observed levels of wealth heterogeneity. In our overlapping generations model, heterogenous agents face uncertain lifetime and leave both accidental and voluntary bequests to their cinldren....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440978
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Reform Options for the Estate Tax System : Targeting Unearned Income, Testimony Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
Batchelder, Lily L. - 2010
This testimony makes three main points. First, inheritances tend to exacerbate existing economic disparities and may be the most important barrier to intergenerational economic mobility. These tendencies are most pronounced at the top of the income distribution. While inherited income is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014045314
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Wealth distribution and optimal inheritance taxation in life-cycle economies with intergenerational transfers
Heer, Burkhard - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428367
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The impact of intergenerational transfers on the distribution of wealth : an international comparison
Horioka, Charles - 2024
In this paper, I analyze detailed data on intergenerational transfers in 4 countries (China, India, Japan, and the United States) from the "Japan Household Panel Survey on Consumer Preferences and Satisfaction (JHPS-CPS)" which has been conducted by the Institute of Social and Economic Research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015066903
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Education and optimal dynamic taxation: The role of income-contingent student loans
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2012
We study Pareto optimal tax and education policies when human capital upon labor market entry is endogenous and … individuals face wage uncertainty. Though optimal labor distortions are history-dependent, i.e. depend on income and education …-contingent loans. To take themodel to the (US) data, we simplify the model to a binary education decision (graduating from college or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316898
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Education and optimal dynamic taxation
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2011
education wedges in this setting analytically and numerically, using a calibrated example. We present ways to implement the … given out to agents during education. These repayment plans are contingent on loan size and income and capture the history … dependence of the labor wedges. Applying the model to US-data and a binary education decision (graduating from college or not) we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282325
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Capital Taxation, Long-run Growth, and Bequests
Kunze, Lars - 2009
It has been shown that higher capital taxes can have a growth-enhancing effect when combined with a revenue-compensating cut in wage taxes (Uhlig and Yanagawa 1996; European Economic Review 40, 1521-1540) or with an expansion in productivity-increasing public services (Rivas 2003; European Economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265806
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Capital taxation, long-run growth, and bequests
Kunze, Lars - 2009
It has been shown that higher capital taxes can have a growth-enhancing effect when combined with a revenue-compensating cut in wage taxes (Uhlig and Yanagawa 1996; European Economic Review 40, 1521-1540) or with an expansion in productivity-increasing public services (Rivas 2003; European Economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850899
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High marginal tax rates on the top 1%?
Kindermann, Fabian; Krueger, Dirk - 2014
In this paper we argue that very high marginal labor income tax rates are an effective tool for social insurance even when households have preferences with high labor supply elasticity, make dynamic savings decisions, and policies have general equilibrium effects. To make this point we construct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010411559
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Education and optimal dynamic taxation : the role of income-contingent student loans
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2012 - This version: September 20, 2012
We study Pareto optimal tax and education policies when human capital upon labor market entry is endogenous and … individuals face wage uncertainty. Though optimal labor distortions are history-dependent, i.e. depend on income and education …-contingent loans. To take themodel to the (US) data, we simplify the model to a binary education decision (graduating from college or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009743921