Local and state governments attempt to lessen after-tax income inequality via progressive taxation. Migration responses … of capital and labor undermine such attempts. Location theory predicts that cross-state migration will continue until the …

redistribution and a modest effect of two year led inequality …

order to avoid welfare- or tax-induced migration. However, recent evidence shows that even in a setup where the … progressivity of the income tax schedule is centralized to an upper-layer government and local governments are involved in tax …

redistribution is proposed. This trade-off between efficiency and distribution is well established. For the case of decentralized …

discussion of fiscal redistribution within the standard social welfare framework, which lends itself to a transparent and … practical evaluation of the extent and determinants of fiscal redistribution. Differences in fiscal redistribution are … decomposed into differences in the magnitude of transfers (fiscal effort) and in the progressivity of transfers (fiscal …

or migration laws – depends on these fundamentals, the set of regions that wins or loses from a given policy is fixed …

analysis suggests that even if the decentralized redistribution is undesirable compared to the fully centralized redistribution …, it is generally desirable when combined with the central redistribution …

or migration laws – depends on these fundamentals, the set of regions that wins or loses from a given policy is fixed …

restrictions on fiscal instruments introduce a trade-off between risk sharing and redistribution. Different constitutions produce …