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Human capital mobility : implications for efficiency, income distribution, and policy

Wildasin, David E. - 2014

Mobility of highly-skilled workers affects and is affected by labor market conditions, taxes, and other policies. This paper documents the demographic and fiscal importance of international migration, especially in aging societies, reviews the efficiency and distributional effects of mobility,...

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Fair and efficent taxation under partial control

Ooghe, Erwin; Peichl, Andreas - 2014

We study fair and efficient tax-benefit schemes based on income and non-income factors under partial control. Partial control means that each factor is a specific mixture of unobserved ability (randomly drawn by nature) and effort (chosen by individuals who differ in tastes). Factors differ in...

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Deserving poor and the desirability of a minimum wage

Blumḳin, Tomer; Danziger, Leif - 2014

This paper provides a novel justification for using a minimum wage to supplement an optimal tax-and-transfer system. We demonstrate that if labor supply decisions are concentrated along the intensive margin and employment is efficiently rationed, a minimum wage can be socially beneficial by...

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Redistribution and education subsidies are siamese twins

Bovenberg, Ary Lans; Jacobs, Bas - 2003

We develop models of optimal linear and non-linear income taxation with endogenous human capital formation to explore optimal education subsidies. Optimal subsidies on education ensure efficiency in human capital accumulation and thus play an important role in alleviating the tax distortions on...

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Inter-charity competition under spatial differentiation : sorting, crowding, and spillovers

Gallier, Carlo; Goeschl, Timo; Kesternich, Martin; … - 2019

We study spatially differentiated competition between charities by partnering with two foodbanks in two neighboring cities to conduct a field experiment with roughly 350 donation appeals. We induce spatial differentiation by varying the observability of charities' location such that each donor...

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Sorting Charles Tiebout : the construction and stabilization of postwar public good theory

Singleton, John D. - 2013

Pure Theory of Local Expenditure." Its present recognition frequently attributed to originating the idea of "voting with … by his passing in 1968. Penned as a qualification to Paul Samuelson's "pure theory," the article failed to influence the … stabilization of postwar public good theory, despite Tiebout's engagement with key figures in its construction. Moreover, his death …

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Size and soft budget constraints

Crivelli, Ernesto; Staal, Klaas - 2006

There is much evidence against the so-called too big to fail hypothesis in the case of bailouts to sub-national governments. We look at a model where districts of different size provide local public goods with positive spillovers. Matching grants of a central government can induce...

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The role of non-binding pledges in social dilemmas with mitigation and adaptation

McEvoy, David M.; Haller, Tobias; Blanco, Esther - 2019

This study presents experimental results on the role that non-binding pledges have on the ability of resource users to manage the threat of probabilistic group damages in two separate environments. First, an environment where agents can work collectively to try to mitigate the root cause of the...

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When the quality of a nation triggers emigration

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - 2006

Why do people leave high-income countries with extensive welfare states? This article will examine what underlies the emigration intentions of native-born inhabitants of one industrialized country in particular: the Netherlands. To understand emigration from high-income countries we focus not...

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Chapter 3. Property Rights, Public Goods and the Environment

Starrett, David A. - In: Handbook of environmental economics : volume 1, …, (pp. 97-125). 2003

We delineate the various ways in which rights to environmental and other resources can be assigned to individuals or groups. We then examine models of individual and group interactions, drawing out their implications for the ways in which resources will be utilized and managed under various...

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