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The authors investigate the desirability of income taxes when the objective is to mitigate wasteful conspicuous consumption generated by people's status-seeking behavior. They consider the joint role of pre-tax wage inequality and of social norms determining how social status is assigned. They...
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-tax wages (or earning potentials) is low enough - i.e., inequality and taxation are substitutes. Instead, if status is cardinal … (i.e., also the shape of the income distribution matters) then the relationship between the inequality of pre-tax wages …
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problem of the tax variables with regard to wages. Estimations in first differences show that marginal taxes overall have a … negative impact on wages. But this effect is not uniform along the wage distribution; while the negative effect of marginal tax …
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