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Redistributive Income Taxation with Directed Technical Change

Loebbing, Jonas - 2021

What are the implications of (endogenous) directed technical change for the design of redistributive income taxes? I study this question in a Mirrleesian economy augmented to include endogenous technology development and adoption choices by firms. Under certain conditions, any progressive tax...

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Union Strategy and Optimal Income Taxation

Kessing, Sebastian G.; Konrad, Kai A. - 2021

taxation in the tradition of Mirrlees (1971). Our results also apply to non-welfarist states which have income redistribution …

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Union Strategy and Optimal Income Taxation

Kessing, Sebastian G.; Konrad, Kai A. - 2011

taxation in the tradition of Mirrlees (1971). Our results also apply to nonwelfarist states which have income redistribution …

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Human capital and optimal redistribution

Koeniger, Winfried; Prat, Julien - 2014

We characterize optimal redistribution in a dynastic family model with human capital. We show how a government can …

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Human capital and optimal redistribution : conference paper

Koeniger, Winfried; Prat, Julien - 2014 - Preliminary and incomplete

We show that more human capital improves incentives in a standard optimal taxation problem: common assumptions about preferences and technology imply that the disutility of labor decreases less strongly in unobserved ability if agents have more human capital. Human capital thus reduces the...

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Human capital and optimal redistribution

Koeniger, Winfried; Prat, Julien - 2014

We characterize optimal redistribution in a dynastic family model with human capital. We show how a government can …

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Is a minimum wage an appropriate instrument for redistribution?

Gerritsen, Aart; Jacobs, Bas - 2014

We analyze the redistributive (dis)advantages of a minimum wage over income taxation in competitive labor markets. A minimum wage causes more unemployment, but also leads to more skill formation as unemployment is concentrated on low-skilled workers. A simple condition based on three sufficient...

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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 …

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Redistribution and insurance with simple tax instruments

Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015

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Are education subsidies an efficient redistributive device?

Dur, Robert A. J.; Teulings, Coen N. - 2003

We argue that promoting education may be a means to reduceincome inequality. When workers of different skill levels ….Hence, a given compression of after-tax incomes can be achievedat lower marginal tax rates. Optimal redistribution policy faces …

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