Browsing Department of Economics by Author "Jacquet, Laurence"
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A comparison of optimal tax policies when compensation or responsibility matter
Jacquet, Laurence; Van de gaer, Dirk (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2009-08)This paper examines optimal redistribution in a model with high and low-skilled individuals with heterogeneous tastes for labor, that either work or not. With such double heterogeneity, it is well known that traditional ... -
Optimal labor income taxation under maximin : an upper bound
Jacquet, Laurence (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)This paper compares marginal income tax rates for the maximin versus a welfarist criterion in the standard Mirleesian optimal income tax problem. It derives fairly mild conditions under which the former is higher than the ... -
Optimal labor income taxation under maximin: an upper bound
Jacquet, Laurence (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-02)This paper assumes the standard optimal income tax model of Mirrlees (Review of Economic Studies, 1971). It gives fairly mild conditions under which the optimal nonlinear labor income tax profile derived under maximin ... -
Optimal redistributive taxation with both extensive and intensive responses
Jacquet, Laurence; Lehmann, Etienne; Van der Linden, Bruno (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-02)This paper characterizes the optimal income taxation when individuals respond along both the intensive and extensive margins. Individuals are heterogeneous in two dimensions: their skills and their disutility of ... -
Take it or leave it : optimal transfer programs, monitoring and takeup
Jacquet, Laurence (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2009-02) -
Workforce or workfare?
Jacquet, Laurence; Brett, Craig (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2011-04)