-off at the state level between distribution goals and economic efficiency. Shifts in state tax progressivity, by altering the … efficiency losses without achieving any net redistribution. …

income taxes is only 0.82%, while the total tax revenue declines by 1.55%. The higher progressivity is associated with lower …

at its optimal progressivity level in personal income tax? This article quantifies the aggregate, distributional, and … evaluate potential reforms of the tax system. The findings suggest that increasing progressivity would be optimal, even though … it would involve an efficiency loss. The optimal reform of the tax schedule would reduce wealth and income inequality at …

Taxation and Public Education Expenditure," I study the determinants of cross-country differences in intergenerational earnings …-country correlation between intergenerational earnings persistence and tax progressivity, and intergenerational earnings persistence and … and earnings, which features progressive taxation, public education expenditure, and borrowing constraints among the …

I examine the question whether social insurance is an appropriate means of redistribution in the presence of an … social insurance and taxation if insurance markets are characterized by adverse selection. The positive and normative … income taxation and the optimal nonlinear social insurance schedule are characterized simultaneously. …

redistribution of income is connected with serious disincentives, influencing the preferences for work and leisure as well as for …

period, and inequality is persistent. Inflation in our model is a mechanism of redistribution, and we find that the link …In this paper we examine the dynamics of the link between inequality and inflation from a political economy perspective … between inequality and inflation within any period or over time depends on institutional and preference related parameters …

between income inequality and redistribution. Then, it introducesthree specifications to endogenize ERI. In these various … common element in these variousspecifications. While income inequality increases the pressure for redistribution it … empirical evidencefor a positive relationship between income inequality and redistribution.The second substantive essay …

development. This article uses a measure of income inequality derived from taxation statistics and a recently proposed method for …Recent interest has been stimulated by the growth of income inequality in most developed countries during the 1980s and … testing long-run Granger non-causality to examine the key determinants of Australia's inequality for the years 1970–2001. In …