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This paper computes the optimal progressivity of the income tax code in a dynamic general equilibrium model with household heterogeneity in which uninsurable labor productivity risk gives rise to a nontrivial income and wealth distribution. A progressive tax system serves as a partial substitute...
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In this paper we quantitatively characterize the optimal capital and labor income tax in an overlapping generations model with idiosyncratic, uninsurable income shocks, where households also differ permanently with respect to their ability to generate income. The welfare criterion we employ is...
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Using a calibrated overlapping generations model we quantify the welfare gains of an age dependent income tax. Agents face uncertainty regarding future abilities and can by saving transfer consumption across periods. The welfare gain of switching from an age-independent to an age-dependent...
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Recent microeconometric studies of taxpayer' responsiveness to taxation have shown that intensive margin labor supply and earnings elasticities typically are modest and sometimes equal to zero. However, a common view is that long-run responses might still be large since micro-estimates are...
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Der Finanzwissenschaftliche Ausschuß des Vereins für Socialpolitik hat 1997 auf der Rostocker Tagung begonnen, sich mit Problemen der Besteuerung zu befassen (vgl. den von A. Oberhauser herausgegebenen Band 'Probleme der Besteuerung I', Berlin 1998). Diese Diskussion wurde 1998 auf der...
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Das Bundesverfassungsgericht erklärte in zwei Entscheidungen, 1990 den Kinderfreibetrag und 1992 den Grundfreibetrag des deutschen Einkommensteuergesetzes für zu niedrig und damit im Widerspruch zum Grundgesetz. In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden die international üblichen tarifpolitischen...
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