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Subsistence level and theory of the welfare state
Eichner, Thomas - 2015
redistribution mechanism of incomes. Sinn (1995) has developed a normative theory of the welfare state in this view. On a …
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A unified perspective on efficiency, redistribution, and public policy
Kaplow, Louis - 2020
Specialized theoretical and empirical research should in principle be embedded in a unified framework that identifies the relevant interactions among different phenomena, enables an appropriate matching of policy instruments to objectives, and grounds normative analysis in individuals' utilities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012174286
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The state as social insurer, labour supply and investments in human capital
Eichner, Thomas - 1998
the constitutional chosen redistribution scheme is determined. …
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Social Security, Income Taxation and Poverty Alleviation
Maldonado, Dario - 2011
device when goverment is concerned with individual utility and poverty. Redistribution can be done using social security …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014056172
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280819
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Redistribution and insurance with simple tax instruments
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283108
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Optimal sin taxation and market power
O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate - 2021
This paper studies the design of sin taxes when firms exercise market power. We outline an optimal tax framework that highlights how market power impacts the efficiency and redistributive properties of sin taxation, and quantify these effects in an application to sugar-sweetened beverage...
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Optimal carbon taxation and horizontal equity : a welfare theoretic approach with application to German household data
Hänsel, Martin C.; Franks, Max; Kalkuhl, Matthias; … - 2021
We develop a model of optimal carbon taxation and redistribution taking into account horizontal equity concerns by …-efficient households if and only if social inequality aversion is sufficiently high. We further find that redistribution of carbon tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012485343
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Universal independence income : a EUROMOD utopian simulation in the UK
Bonomi Bezzo, Franco - 2021
In this paper we want to provide an utopian attempt to tackle inequality and to tackle, most specifically, what we consider the cultural and ethical origin of inequality: paid work. We believe that a globalised world, structured around the asymmetry between an increasingly small number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012439110
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Social status, preferences for redistribution and optimal taxation : a survey
Gallice, Andrea - 2018
The author reviews recent studies of how social status concerns influence individual preferences for redistribution and …
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