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The Political Sustainability of a Basic Income Scheme and Social Health Insurance
Kifmann, Mathias; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014
. Individuals differ along the two most important dimensions when it comes to the design of the two welfare schemes, namely, income … also crowds out social health insurance. We show that when both welfare schemes are open for debate, the political … equilibrium is such that only the basic income scheme prevails. At the constitutional stage we determine which welfare scheme …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427712
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Taxes and tax reform in Ethiopia, 1990 - 2003
Geda, Alemayehu; Shimeles, Abebe - 2005
In 1991 the Ethiopian Revolution Democratic Front (EPRDF) toppled the old ‘socialist’ regime that had ruled the country for seventeen years. In contrast to the previous policy regime of hard control, EPRDF initiated a wide range of reforms that covered not only the tax system but also the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284772
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Fair and Effi cient Taxation under Partial Control:Theory and Evidence
Ooghe, Erwin; Peichl, Andreas - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
There is clear evidence that fairness plays a role in redistribution. Individuals want tocompensate others for their misfortune, while they allow them to enjoy the fruits of their effort.Such fairness considerations have been introduced in political economy and optimal incometax models with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360559
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Charitable giving and optimal public policy in a competitive equilibrium with multiple equilibria
Al-Nowaihi, Ali; Dhami, Sanjit S. - 2010
public giving is determined using a welfare analysis. We show that the Nash non-cooperative outcome is virtually identical to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941259
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The economics of risky health behaviors
Cawley, John H.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2011
increase social welfare. The chapter summarizes the literature on the consequences of risky health behaviors for economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307506
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Fair and efficient taxation under partial control : theory and evidence
Ooghe, Erwin; Peichl, Andreas - 2010
There is clear evidence that fairness plays a role in redistribution. Individuals want to compensate others for their misfortune, while they allow them to enjoy the fruits of their effort. Such fairness considerations have been introduced in political economy and optimal income tax models with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009314282
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A 2004 social accounting matrix for Israel : documentation of an economy-wide database with a focus on agriculture, the labour market, and income distribution
Siddig, Khalid Hassan Ali; Flaig, Dorothee; Luckmann, … - 2011
This document describes the Israeli Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for the year 2004, developed by the Agricultural and Food Policy Group at the University of Hohenheim. The SAM is a part of a larger research project which aims to analyse several economic, trade, and labour policies in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009670543
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Fair and efficent taxation under partial control
Ooghe, Erwin; Peichl, Andreas - 2014
We study fair and efficient tax-benefit schemes based on income and non-income factors under partial control. Partial control means that each factor is a specific mixture of unobserved ability (randomly drawn by nature) and effort (chosen by individuals who differ in tastes). Factors differ in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229894
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Deserving poor and the desirability of a minimum wage
Blumḳin, Tomer; Danziger, Leif - 2014
This paper provides a novel justification for using a minimum wage to supplement an optimal tax-and-transfer system. We demonstrate that if labor supply decisions are concentrated along the intensive margin and employment is efficiently rationed, a minimum wage can be socially beneficial by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010402108
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The political sustainability of a basic income scheme and social health insurance
Kifmann, Mathias; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014
. Individuals differ along the two most important dimensions when it comes to the design of the two welfare schemes, namely, income … also crowds out social health insurance. We show that when both welfare schemes are open for debate, the political … equilibrium is such that only the basic income scheme prevails. At the constitutional stage we determine which welfare scheme …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010439162