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Optimal redistribution in the presence of signaling

Bastani, Spencer; Blumḳin, Tomer; Micheletto, Luca - 2021

We analyze optimal redistribution in the presence of labor market signaling where innate productive ability is not only … of education taxes/subsidies. We demonstrate how the government can achieve redistribution through wage compression and … analyze the conditions under which such redistribution is feasible and socially desirable. …

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Human Capital and Optimal Redistribution

Koeniger, Winfried - 2014

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

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Combining microsimulation and optimization to identify optimal flexible tax-transfer rules

Colombino, Ugo; Islam, Nizamul - 2020

inequality aversion parameter, the optimized rules provide a higher social welfare than the current rule, with the exception of …

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Optimal Redistribution When Different Workers are Indistinguishable

Marchand, Maurice; Pestieau, Pierre; Racionero … - 2008

Using the standard non linear income and commodity taxation framework, we examine the optimal policy to be adopted when the same labour disutility can receive two opposite interpretations: taste for leisure and activity limitation. In the absence of complete information about individual...

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Redistributive Taxation Under Ethical Behaviour

Boadway, Robin; Marceau, Nicolas; Mongrain, Steeve - 2006

We consider the implications of ethical behaviour on the effect of a redistributive tax-transfer system. In choosing their labour supplies, individuals take into account whether their tax liabilities correspond to what they view as ethically acceptable. If tax liabilities are viewed as ethically...

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Take it or Leave it : Optimal Transfer Programs, Monitoring and Takeup

Jacquet, Laurence - 2010

This paper studies the optimal income redistribution and monitoring when disability benefits are intended for disabled …

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Optimal Redistribution and Monitoring of Labor Effort

Zoutman, Floris - 2014

This paper extends the Mirrlees (1971) model of optimal non-linear income taxation with a monitoring technology that allows the government to verify labor effort at a positive, but non-infinite cost. Monitored individuals receive a penalty, which increases if individuals earn a lower income...

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Optimal Redistributive Taxation in a Search Equilibrium Model

Hungerbühler, Mathias; Lehmann, Etienne; Parmentier, Alexis - 2021

redistribution is much more important in our setting than in a comparable Mirrlees (1971) setting …

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Higher Education Financing and Income Redistribution

Wigger, Berthold U. - 2021

This paper considers an optimal income tax cum higher education policy. It shows that in the presence of an optimal income tax system higher education should be taxed rather than subsidized. Furthermore, income taxes should become less progressive when an optimal higher education policy is...

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Redistributive Taxation with Skill Biased Technologies

Borri, Nicola; Reichlin, Pietro - 2022

distortions arising from redistribution, and it survives for any parametrization of the log-linear tax scheme except for a fully …

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