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Having it all, for all : child-care subsidies and income distribution reconciled
Barigozzi, Francesca; Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2019
We study the design of child-care policies when redistribution matters. Traditional mothers provide some informal child … redistribution across couples and efficiency are separable. Redistribution is performed via lump-sum transfers and taxes which are … care at a Pigouvian rate. However, in a second-best setting, a trade-off between efficiency and redistribution emerges. The …
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Should the rich be taxed more? : the fiscal inequality coefficient
Hatgioannides, John; Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2017
This paper holistically addresses the effective (relative) income tax contribution of a given in-come (or, wealth) group. The widely acclaimed standard in public policy is the absolute benefaction of a given income group in filling up the fiscal coffers. Instead, we focus on the ratio of the...
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A class of proximity-sensitive measures of relative deprivation
Stark, Oded; Bielawski, Jakub; Falniowski, Fryderyk - 2017
We introduce a new class of generalized measures of relative deprivation. The class takes the form of a power mean of order p . A characteristic of the class is that depending on the value of the proximity-sensitive parameter p , the class is capable of accommodating both a decreasing weight...
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Optimal taxation under different concepts of justness
Jessen, Robin; Metzing, Maria; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2017
A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfarist social welfare function with weights decreasing with income. However, high transfer withdrawal rates in many countries imply very low weights for the working poor in practice. We reconcile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011791708
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The effects of a hybrid negative income tax on poverty and inequality : a microsimulation on the UK and Italy
Tromp, Alexander - 2017
This paper aims to propose a social protection system that "decommodifies" labour and fulfills the properties of a Social Protection Floor satisfying revenue-neutrality. To this end, firstly, a Universal Basic Income (UBI) scheme is explored. Secondly, the UBI is transformed into a Negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011751668
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Welfare analysis and redistributive policies
Bargain, Olivier - 2017
the literature have attempted (i) to model different behaviour (in a way that matter for incidence and redistribution of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011751671
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Could/should Jubilee debt cancellations be reintroduced today?
Hudson, Michael; Goodhart, Charles A. E. - 2018
In this paper the authors recall the history of Jubilee debt cancellations, emphasizing what their social purpose was at that time. They note that it would not be possible to copy that procedure exactly nowadays, primarily because most debt/credit relationships are intermediated via financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011821401
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Optimal taxation under different concepts of justness
Jessen, Robin; Metzing, Maria; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2018
A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfarist social welfare function with weights decreasing with income. However, high transfer withdrawal rates in many countries imply very low weights for the working poor in practice. We extend the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011897232
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Could/should Jubilee debt cancellations be reintroduced today? If not, what alternative measures of debt relief and redistribution might be possible?
Hudson, Michael; Goodhart, Charles A. E. - 2018
In this paper the authors recall the history of Jubilee debt cancellations, emphasizing what their social purpose was at that time. They note that it would not be possible to copy that procedure exactly nowadays, primarily because most debt/credit relationships are intermediated via financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873351
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How the nature of inequality reduction matters for CO2 emissions
Angel, Tobias; Berthe, Alexandre; Costantini, Valeria; … - 2024
carbon emission reduction than redistribution (inequality reduction by transfers). However, those countries who contribute …-distribution decreases or does not affect the carbon emissions of the biggest global polluters. Redistribution, on the other hand, exhibits …
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