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Optimal redistribution : rising inequality vs. rising living standards
Ferriere, Axelle; Grübener, Philipp; Sachs, Dominik - 2024
standards. The workhorse models of optimal income taxation call for more redistribution as inequality rises. By contrast, living …. Rising living standards dampen by at least 25% the desired increase in redistribution due to rising inequality. …
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Optimal redistribution : rising inequality vs. rising living standards
Ferriere, Axelle; Grübener, Philipp; Sachs, Dominik - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014535104
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Taxes, Growth and Welfare in an Endogenous Growth Model with Overlapping Generations
Meijdam, Lex - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1998
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Factor Taxation with Heterogeneous Agents
Domeij, David; Heathcote, Jonathan - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2000
We investigate the welfare implications of changing a proportional capital income tax for a model economy in which heterogeneous households face labor income risk and trade only one asset. Labor taxes are adjusted at the time of the reform to maintain long run budget balance. Our stochastic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423795
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Saving social security
Lane, Edward - 2024
For more than 25 years, the Social Security Trust Fund has been projected to run out of money in 2033 (give or take a few years), potentially causing benefits to be severely reduced in the absence of corrective legislative action. Today (February 2024), projections are made by the Social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014581826
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Fiscal Policy Through Time-Varying Tax Rates If and How
Kaufman, Martin - 2006
This paper investigates if there are circumstances where time-varying tax rates could improve welfare and whether such policy can effectively be implemented in practice. While, in principle, variable taxes could improve welfare in some cases, the paper highlights the very particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012782675
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Saving social security
Lane, Edward - 2024
For more than 25 years, the Social Security Trust Fund has been projected to run out of money in 2033 (give or take a few years), potentially causing benefits to be severely reduced in the absence of corrective legislative action. Today (February 2024), projections are made by the Social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480253
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Tax And Education Policy In A Heterogeneous Agent Economy: What Levels Of Redistribution Maximize Growth And Efficiency?
Bénabou, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
for missing credit and insurance markets. The resulting tradeoffs for growth and efficiency are explored, both … to higher income growth than taxes and transfers, but at the cost of lower insurance. Overall efficiency is assessed … costs and benefits of redistribution are generally of the same order of magnitude, resulting in reasonable values for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124288
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Poverty, human capital, life-cycle and the tax and transfer bases: The role of education for development and international competition
Petersen, Hans-Georg - 2011
redistribution of income is connected with serious disincentives, influencing the preferences for work and leisure as well as for … real capital. An important prerequisite for a sustainable growth process is the efficient design of the social security …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282647
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Poverty, Human Capital, Life-cycle and the Tax and Transfer Bases: The Role of Education for Development and International Competition
Petersen, Hans-Georg - Lehrstuhl für Finanzwissenschaft, Wirtschafts- und … - 2011
redistribution of income is connected with serious disincentives, influencing the preferences for work and leisure as well as for … real capital. An important prerequisite for a sustainable growth process is the efficient design of the social security …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323207