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Taxation and Redistribution : Some Clarifications

Kaplow, Louis - 2003

This essay revisits certain basic features of tax systems as they relate to redistribution. It focuses on how the … actual differences between proportional and graduated taxes with regard to redistribution diverge in important ways from what …

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Das Versprechen der Gleichheit : Steuern und soziale Ungleichheit in Deutschland von 1871 bis heute

Buggeln, Marc - 2022 - Originalausgabe

Das Elend der Industriearbeiter im 19. Jahrhundert verstärkte den Ruf nach sozialer Gerechtigkeit und schürte die Angst vor einer Revolution. Preußen führte daraufhin als erste europäische Großmacht eine progressive Einkommensteuer ein. Mit ihr begann die Revolution der Gleichheit und der...

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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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In front of and behind the veil of ignorance : an analysis of motivations for redistribution

Bjerk, David - 2016

This paper uses a laboratory experiment to explore individuals' motivations for redistribution. The laboratory results … show that as income uncertainty diminishes, participants become more extreme in their preferences for redistribution. The … findings suggest that for most people, the motivation for redistribution is financial self-interest - namely as insurance …

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