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Human Capital and Optimal Positive Taxation of Capital Income

Bovenberg, A Lans; Jacobs, Bas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper analyzes optimal linear taxes on capital and labour incomes in a life-cycle model of human capital investment, financial savings, and labour supply with heterogenous individuals. A dual income tax with a positive marginal tax rate on not only labour income but also capital income is...

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Taxes, Social Subsidies and the Allocation of Work Time

Ngai, Liwa Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We examine the allocation of hours of work across industrial sectors in OECD countries. We find large disparities across three sector groups, one that produces goods without home substitutes, and two others that have home substitutes but treated differently by welfare policy. We attribute the...

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Voting for Jobs: Policy Persistence and Unemployment

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper studies, in a model with unemployment, how labour market status affects the preferences for public spending, in the form of a public good or subsidies. It then derives the implications for the dynamics of government expenditures under the hypothesis of majority voting. These will...

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People, Places and Public Policy: Some Simple Welfare Economics of Local Economic Development Programs

Kline, Patrick; Moretti, Enrico - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Most countries exhibit large and persistent geographical differences in wages, income and unemployment rates. A growing class of ``place based'' policies attempt to address these differences through public investments and subsidies that target disadvantaged neighborhoods, cities or regions....

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Against 'Gender-based taxation'

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper criticizes the Alesina and Ichino (2007) proposal of taxing men more than women. First, the proposal is outright sex discrimination. Second, it cannot be Pareto-improving. Third, its virtues in terms of efficiency are better obtained by gender-neutral voluntary schemes for taxing...

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Taxation and International Migration of Superstars: Evidence from the European Football Market

Kleven, Henrik; Landais, Camille; Saez, Emmanuel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper analyzes the effects of top earnings tax rates on the international migration of top football players in Europe. We construct a panel data set of top earnings tax rates, football player careers, and club performances in the first leagues of 14 European countries since 1980. We...

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Social background, education and inequality

Andersen, Torben M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

cumulative effect over time increasing (decreasing) the share of skilled further. Active and passive means of redistribution thus … differ both in the impact and long-run effects. Passive redistribution benefits non-skilled on impact but increases their … share over time, while active redistribution does not benefit the non-skilled on impact (but their children) but leads to …

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Guide to Reform of Higher Education: A European Perspective

Jacobs, Bas; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Although there are exceptions, most European universities and institutions of higher education find it difficult to compete with the best universities in the Anglo-Saxon world. Despite the Bologna agreement and the ambitions of the Lisbon agenda, European universities are in need of fundamental...

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What is the Domain of the Welfare State?

Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

The paper examines the appropriate domain of the Welfare State by exploring the areas in which free enterprise fails to provide adequate welfare state services. The paper outlines a simple coherent strategy for formulating government welfare state policy by identifying the relevant market...

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Baumol’s cost disease and the sustainability of the welfare state

Andersen, Torben M; Kreiner, Claus Thustrup - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

If productivity increases more slowly for services than for manufactured goods, then services suffer from Baumol’s cost disease and tend to become relatively more costly over time. Since the welfare state in all countries is an important supplier of tax financed services, this translates into...

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