Browsing NHH Brage by Subject "redistribution"
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Can a mixed health care system be desirable on equity grounds ?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-02)Should health care provision be public, private, or both? We look at this question in a setting where people differ in their earnings capacity and face some illness risk. We assume that illness reduces a person's time ... -
Globalisation, inequality and redistribution
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-06)The present paper seeks to explain the pattern of income redistribution in a globalised world of increased market income inequality and lower costs of factor mobility. In some countries, larger market income inequality ... -
Good jobs, bad jobs and redistribution
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-08)We analyse the question of optimal taxation in a dual economy, when the government is concerned about the distribution of labour income. Income inequality is caused by the presence of sunk capital investments, which creates ... -
Inequality, tax avoidance and redistribution
(Working paper, Working paper, 2004-12)The present paper seeks to explain the pattern of income redistribution in a world of increased market income inequality. In some countries, larger market income inequality has been met by an increased redistributive effort, ... -
Redistributive taxation and the household : the case of individual filings
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-01)In this paper I look at the tax treatment of households under individual filings and characterise the efficiency properties of an income tax schedule that redistributes from rich to poor households. Because tax liabilities ... -
The power of money : wealth effects in contests
(Discussion Papers;13/2013, Working paper, 2013-06)Two wealth effects typically arise in any contest: i) wealth decreases the marginal cost of effort, but also ii) decreases the marginal benefit of winning the contest. In this paper, we introduce three types of strategic ... -
Trading off Welfare and Immigration in Europe
(Discussion paper;22/15, Working paper, 2015-10)In this paper, we explore the trade-off Europe faces when choosing between immigration from poor countries and welfare spending. Using data from the European Social Survey on sixteen countries from 2002{2012, we document ... -
When a price is enough : implementation in optimal tax design
(Discussion paper;32/14, Working paper, 2014-09)This paper studies the design of tax systems that implement a planner's secondbest allocation in a market economy. An example shows that the widely used Mirrleesian (1976) tax system cannot implement all incentive-compatible ...