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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...

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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 …

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Redistribution and insurance with simple tax instruments

Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015

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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...

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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...

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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...

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The poor or the kids? : distributional impacts of taxes and benefits among Czech households

Dušek, Libor; Kalíšková, Klára; Münich, Daniel - In: Prague economic papers : a bimonthly journal of … 24 (2015) 5, pp. 602-618

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The redistribution of trade gains when income inequality matters

De Pinto, Marco - In: Economies : open access journal 3 (2015) 4, pp. 186-215

How does a redistribution of trade gains affect welfare when income inequality matters? To answer this question, we … extend the [1] model to unionized labor markets and heterogeneous workers. As redistribution schemes, we consider … redistribution scheme is to finance unemployment benefits by a wage tax. …

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Redistribution and education subsidies are siamese twins

Bovenberg, Ary Lans; Jacobs, Bas - 2003

We develop models of optimal linear and non-linear income taxation with endogenous human capital formation to explore optimal education subsidies. Optimal subsidies on education ensure efficiency in human capital accumulation and thus play an important role in alleviating the tax distortions on...

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Labour market disadvantage, political orientations and voting : how adverse labour market experiences translate into electoral behaviour

Emmenegger, Patrick; Marx, Paul; Schraff, Dominik - In: Socio-economic review 13 (2015) 2, pp. 189-213

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