Fellman, Johan; Jantti, Markus; Lambert, Peter J - In: Scandinavian Journal of Economics 101 (1999) 1, pp. 115-26
In this paper, the authors develop 'optimal yardsticks' to gauge the effectiveness of given tax and benefit policies in reducing inequality. They show that the conjunction of the optimal tax and optimal benefits policies constitutes the optimal tax-and-benefit policy, given the tax and benefit...
