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more attractive for social insurance if a larger part of risk is realized in the first period of the life-cycle. Our …
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To analyze the optimal social insurance package, we set up a two-period life-cycle model with risky human capital investment in which the government has access to labor taxation, education subsidies and capital taxation. Social insurance is provided by redistributive labor taxation. Moreover,...
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more attractive for social insurance if a larger part of risk is realized in the first period of the life-cycle. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583702
To analyze the optimal social insurance package, we set up a two-period life-cycle model with risky human capital investment in which the government has access to labor taxation, education subsidies and capital taxation. Social insurance is provided by redistributive labor taxation. Moreover,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833884
find a quarter of students violated the order. Yet, neither risk preference, altruism, nor preexisting health conditions …
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We study intertemporal choices through an experiment that elicits a subject's plan and then tracks its implementation over time. There are two main results. When facing a costly task to be completed under a deadline, two thirds of subjects prefer anticipating it rather than postponing it. Choice...
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. We present a laboratory experiment that studies how residual risk of failure affects willingness to contribute to climate … risk than in treatments without one. We interpret this as an outcome of a psychological process where residual risk puts …
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the literature on wage effects we add a breakdown of variances in heterogeneity and risk. …
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explore the design of policy. The model highlights the critical roles played by (i) the relationship between behavioural risk … preferences, standard risk aversion and labour supply behaviour, (ii) the risk properties of education, and (iii) the degree of …
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We study the optimal taxation of risk-free and excess capital income with heterogeneous rates of return, alongside an … optimal nonlinear earnings tax. Households can hold three assets: one risk-free, one risky but diversifiable, and one a … private investment with idiosyncratic risk whose expected return differs among households. Contrary to expectations, the …
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