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This paper studies second-best policies in an OLG model in which endogenous growth results from human capital accumulation. When young, individuals decide on education, saving, and nonqualified labour. When old, individuals supply qualified labour. Growth equilibria are inefficient in...
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This paper presents an overlapping generations model to explain why humans live in families rather than in other pair groupings. Since most non-human species are not familial, something special must be behind the family. It is shown that the two necessary features that explain the origin of the...
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In this paper fiscal policy is examined for an open economy characterised by unemployment due to efficiency wages. We allow for capital and firm mobility in a model where the government chooses the level of wage, source-based capital and profit taxation. The taxing choices of governments are...
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Altruistic parents may transfer resources to their offspring by providing education, and by leaving bequests. We show that in the presence of wage taxation, a small bequest tax may improve efficiency in an overlapping-generations framework with only intended bequests, by enhancing incentives of...
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uninsurable labor income risk, and economic growth in a small open overlapping-generations economy with heterogeneous agents. It … demonstrates how the role of the personal income distribution for an economy?s process of development through risky human capital …, children?s human capital investments are positively affected by parents? income. Second, the marginal propensity to save is …
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model with idiosyncratic labor income risk. In our model economy, even a moderate earnings testing reduces individuals …
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then use our model to consider the long-term lifecycle effects of two reforms: One is the introduction of an Earned Income …
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influence future discussions of tax reform. Indeed, this can already be recognised in the Henry Review. As far as income … direction for reform is towards more progressive taxation of both labour earnings and capital income, although not necessarily …
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a market for cloning arises if a large enough fraction of the clone?s income can be appropriated by its model. Only … people with the highest ability are cloned, while people at the bottom of the distribution of income specialize in surrogacy …
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This paper uses an overlapping generations model with international labor mobility and a politically responsive fiscal policy to examine aging in developed and developing regions. Migrant workers change the political structure composed of young and elderly voters in both labor-receiving and...
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