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Optimal wage redistribution in the presence of adverse selection in the labor market

Bastani, Spencer; Blumḳin, Tomer; Micheletto, Luca - 2015

In this paper we allude to a novel role played by the non-linear income tax system in the presence of adverse selection in the labor market due to asymmetric information between workers and firms. We show that an appropriate choice of the tax schedule enables the government to affect the wage...

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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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Social status, preferences for redistribution and optimal taxation : a survey

Gallice, Andrea - 2018

redistribution and impact the design of optimal tax policies. He focuses on two aspects: the relevant dimension over which relative …

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Political preferences for redistribution in Sweden

Bastani, Spencer; Lundberg, Jacob - 2016

We examine preferences for redistribution inherent in Swedish tax policy 1971-2012 using the inverse optimal tax …

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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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Political preferences for redistribution in Sweden

Bastani, Spencer; Lundberg, Jacob - 2016

We examine preferences for redistribution inherent in Swedish tax policy 1971-2012 using the inverse optimal tax …

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Temptation in consumption and optimal redistributive taxation

Arvanitia, Maria; Sjögren, Tomas - 2020

The purpose of this article is to integrate the class of preferences developed by Gul and Pesendorfer into the theory …

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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...

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Nonlinear taxation of income and education in the presence of income-misreporting

Bastani, Spencer; Gahvari, Firouz; Micheletto, Luca - 2022

We study the joint design of nonlinear income and education taxes when the government pursues redistributive objectives. A key feature of our setup is that the ability type of an agent can affect both the costs and benefits of acquiring education. Market remuneration of agents depends on both...

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Optimal Tax Progressivity in Unionised Labour Markets : Simulation Results for Germany

Boeters, Stefan - 2010

Changing the income tax progressivity in labour markets with collective wage bargaining generates a trade-off. On the one hand, higher progressivity distorts individual labour supply decisions at the hours-of-work margin, on the other hand, it reduces unemployment by exerting downward pressure...

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