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The future of welfare services : how worried should we be about Wagner, Baumol and Ageing?
Bergh, Andreas - 2016
redistribution. Baumol's cost disease, Wagner's law, and population ageing are often said to bring challenges for the future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011427870
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Is unconditional basic income a viable alternative to other social welfare measures? : countries give basic education and health care to everyone, and for good reasons - why not ba...
Colombino, Ugo - 2015
Automation and globalization have brought about a tremendous increase in productivity, but also accelerated job destruction, systemic risks, and greater income inequality. Current social policies may not be adequate for achieving the goals of redistributing the gains from automation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429967
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Tax shifts
Mathé, Milena; Nicodème, Gaëtan; Ruà, Savino - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011432425
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Are social security programs progressive? : whether social security programs reduce inequality is not related to the amount they redistribute
Forteza, Alvaro - 2015
requires little redistribution. But reducing inequality and alleviating poverty do require redistribution. To reduce inequality … redistribute large amounts of income without noticeably reducing inequality, others reduce inequality with less redistribution and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433386
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Optimal taxation and public provision for poverty reduction
Kanbur, Ravi; Pirttilä, Jukka; Tuomala, Matti; Ylinen, … - 2015
The existing literature on optimal taxation typically assumes there exists a capacity to implement complex tax schemes, which is not necessarily the case for many developing countries. We examine the determinants of optimal redistributive policies in the context of a developing country that can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280723
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Redistribution and insurance with simple tax instruments ; presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, April 2015
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015
provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … bound on optimal taxes: even for welfare functions that do not value redistribution, marginal tax rates are positive for all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280819
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Redistribution and insurance with simple tax instruments
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015
provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … bound on optimal taxes: even for welfare functions that do not value redistribution, marginal tax rates are positive for all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283108
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German public finances through the financial crisis
Blömer, Maximilian (contributor) - 2015
The German experience of the crisis was very different compared to those of most other countries in Europe. Germany was hit by a very strong shock which was relatively concentrated in the exporting, manufacturing industries. In addition, the German labour market was very resilient during the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286043
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Optimal wage redistribution in the presence of adverse selection in the labor market
Bastani, Spencer; Blumḳin, Tomer; Micheletto, Luca - 2015
In this paper we allude to a novel role played by the non-linear income tax system in the presence of adverse selection in the labor market due to asymmetric information between workers and firms. We show that an appropriate choice of the tax schedule enables the government to affect the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289068
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A fresh look at an old question : is pro-poor targeting of cash transfers more effective than universal systems at reducing inequality and poverty?
McKnight, Abigail - 2015
This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty reduction in four EU countries - the UK, Italy, Sweden and France. We use long time series (spanning four decades) to examine trends within countries over time and between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289926