We study the impact of endogenous longevity on optimal tax progressivity and inequality in an overlapping generations … model with skill heterogeneity. Higher tax progressivity decreases both the longevity gap and net income inequality, but at …

Is the Spanish economy positioned at its optimal progressivity level in personal income tax? This article quantifies … progressivity would be optimal, even though it would involve an efficiency loss. The optimal reform of the tax schedule would reduce … wealth and income inequality at the cost of negative effects on capital, labor, and output. Finally, these theoretical …

Is the Spanish economy positioned at its optimal progressivity level in personal income tax? This article quantifies … progressivity would be optimal, even though it would involve an efficiency loss. The optimal reform of the tax schedule would reduce … wealth and income inequality at the cost of negative effects on capital, labor, and output. Finally, these theoretical …

We study the impact of endogenous longevity on optimal tax progressivity and inequality in an overlapping generations … model with skill heterogeneity. Higher tax progressivity decreases both the longevity gap and net income inequality, but at …

Ýmrohoroðlu, Ýmrohoroðlu and Joines [1995, A life-cycle analysis of Social Security, Economic Theory, vol. 6, 83 …

-of-thumb consumers. We demonstrate that an unexpected increase in government spending increases income inequality and decreases wealth … inequality. In contrast to the conventional wisdom that the financing of additional expenditures by debt rather than taxes …

skills and human capital, and it increases inequality if employees are not capable adapting to new technologies. The second … efficiently. In this paper, we use an overlapping generation model with human capital accumulation and inequality to derive a … mechanism which reduces income inequality and provides an incentive for all adults to invest more in education. As a consequence …

shown to be increasing in wealth inequality. The dynamic interaction between inequality and social security leads to growing …