Similar Search Results

Labour supply, welfare and the earnings distribution

Creedy, John - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 4, 3, pp. 134-151

This paper examines the generation of earnings distributions using a labour supply framework in which individuals face piecewise-linear budget constraints. The possible implications for the distribution of earnings within a population consisting of single individuals having a joint distribution...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565302

Optimal Growth when Tastes are Inherited

De La Croix, D.; Michel, P. - Association of Southern European Economic Theorists - ASSET - 1997

We address the issue of optimal growth when standard-of-living aspirations are transmitted from one generation to the next. We derive the condition for the optimal solution to be stable in the saddle-point sense and show that this optimal solutionmay display damped oscillations even when the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005474443

Child Care in the Welfare State A critique of the Rosen model

Aslaksen, Iulie; Koren, Charlotte - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2000

A recent study of the welfare state in Sweden, Rosen (1995, 1996, 1997), concludes that child care subsidies may lead … extend Rosen's model, we analyze the case of positive externalities associated with child quality. The positive externality … provides a rationale for child care subsidies, as expected, and also influences the optimal income tax rate. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980969

A Second-Best Analysis of Environmental Subsidies

Parry, Ian - In: International Tax and Public Finance 5 (1998) 2, pp. 153-170

This paper examines the complications posed by pre-existing tax distortions in the economy, for the evaluation of a variety of subsidy policies that affect the environment. These complications include not only the efficiency cost of financing the subsidy by distortionary taxation, but also the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005711257