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Lind, Jo Thori - 2003

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Markovian social security in unequal societies

Chen, Kaiji; Song, Zheng Michael - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 116 (2014) 4, pp. 982-1011

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Evaluating pay-as-you-go social security systems

Bachmann, Andreas; Wüthrich, Kaspar - 2015

This paper proposes a method for the welfare analysis of pay-as-you-go social security systems. We derive a formula for the welfare consequences of a permanent marginal change in the payroll tax rate that is valid under weak assumptions about the deep structure of the economy. Our approach...

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Welfare evaluation of the 1986 tax reform for married couples in the United States

Picchio, Matteo; Valletta, Giacomo - 2015

This paper evaluates the welfare effects of the 1986 Tax Reform Act (TRA86). In thirty years since its introduction, several studies have analysed the effects of TRA86. However, preference heterogeneity and non-market dimensions of welfare have not been taken into account. We propose an...

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