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119 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8854
How Many Educated Workers for Your Economy? European Targets, Optimal Public Spending, and Labor Market Impact
Isabelle Lebon, Therese Rebiere
published in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2018, 17 (1), 1 - 44
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8830
Household Bargaining and the Design of Couples' Income Taxation
Helmuth Cremer, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur, Dario Maldonado, Kerstin Roeder
published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 89, 454-470
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8781
Optimal Spatial Taxation: Are Big Cities Too Small?
Jan Eeckhout, Nezih Guner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8666
Human Capital and Optimal Redistribution
Winfried Koeniger, Julien Prat
revised version published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2018, 27, 1-26.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8341
Formal Education Versus Learning-by-Doing
Frédéric Gavrel, Isabelle Lebon, Therese Rebiere
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8275
Optimal Taxation, Inequality and Top Incomes
Yuri Andrienko, Patricia Apps, Ray Rees
published as "Optimal Taxation and Top Incomes" in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2016, 23, 918-1003
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8137
Tax Incidence in the Presence of Tax Evasion
Philipp Doerrenberg, Denvil Duncan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8087
Five Crossroads on the Way to Basic Income: An Italian Tour
Ugo Colombino
revised version published in: Italian Economic Journal, 2015, 1 (3), 353-389
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7917
Circumstantial Risk: Impact of Future Tax Evasion and Labor Supply Opportunities on Risk Exposure
Philipp Doerrenberg, Denvil Duncan, Christopher Zeppenfeld
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 109, 85 - 100
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7805
Fiscal Policy, Sovereign Default, and Bailouts
Falko Juessen, Andreas Schabert
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7804
Shifting Taxes from Labor to Consumption: Efficient, but Regressive?
Nico Pestel, Eric Sommer
revised version published as 'Shifting Taxes from Labor to Consumption: More Employment and more Inequality?' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2017, 63 (3), 524-563
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7646
Tax Me If You Can! Optimal Nonlinear Income Tax between Competing Governments
Etienne Lehmann, Laurent Simula, Alain Trannoy
published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014, 129 (4), 1995-2030
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7565
Long-Term Care and Lazy Rotten Kids
Helmuth Cremer, Kerstin Roeder
published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 19, 2017, 583-602
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7280
Mincer Equation, Power Law of Learning, and Efficient Education Policy
Wolfram F. Richter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7215
Comparing Inequality Aversion across Countries When Labor Supply Responses Differ
Olivier B. Bargain, Mathias Dolls, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl, Sebastian Siegloch
revised version published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2014, 21(5), 845-873
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6999
Happy Taxpayers? Income Taxation and Well-Being
Alpaslan Akay, Olivier B. Bargain, Mathias Dolls, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl, Sebastian Siegloch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6914
Experimental Evidence on the Relationship between Tax Evasion Opportunities and Labor Supply
Philipp Doerrenberg, Denvil Duncan
substantially revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 68, 48–70
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6823
Optimal Taxation, Child Care and Models of the Household
Patricia Apps, Ray Rees
published as 'Optimal family taxation and income inequality' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2018, 25, 1093–1128
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6798
Migration Elasticities, Fiscal Federalism and the Ability of States to Redistribute Income
Seth H. Giertz, Mehmet S. Tosun
published in: National Tax Journal, 2012, 65, 1069-92
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6624
Optimal Fiscal Devaluation
François Langot, Lise Patureau, Thepthida Sopraseuth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6615
Capital Income Taxation and the Mirrlees Review
Patricia Apps, Ray Rees
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6056
Education and Optimal Dynamic Taxation
Sebastian Findeisen, Dominik Sachs
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6007
Optimal Piecewise Linear Income Taxation
Patricia Apps, Ngo Van Long, Ray Rees
published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2014, 16 (4), 523-545
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5663
How to Deal with Covert Child Labour, and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country
Alessandro Cigno
published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2012, 26 (1), 61-67
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5642
Optimal Redistributive Taxation with Both Labor Supply and Labor Demand Responses
Laurence Jacquet, Etienne Lehmann, Bruno Van der Linden
revised version published as 'Optimal Income Taxation with Kalai Wage Bargaining and Endogenous Participation' in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2014, 42(2), 381-402
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5608
Optimal Commodity Taxation and Redistribution within Households
Olivier B. Bargain, Olivier Donni
published in: Economica, 2014, 81 (321), 48-62
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5440
Tax-Benefit Systems in Europe and the US: Between Equity and Efficiency
Olivier B. Bargain, Mathias Dolls, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl, Sebastian Siegloch
revised version pubished in 2 parts - as 'Comparing inequality aversion across countries when labor supply responses differ' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2014, 21, 845 - 873 (also available as IZA DP 7215) and as 'Tax-Benefit Revealed Social Preferences in Europe and the US' in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 113/114, 257 -28
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5221
Tax-Benefit Revealed Redistributive Preferences Over Time: Ireland 1987-2005
Olivier B. Bargain, Claire Keane
published in: Labour, 2010, 24 (s1), 141–167
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5201
Public and Private Insurance with Costly Transactions
Giuseppe Bertola, Winfried Koeniger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4837
Optimal Redistributive Taxation with Both Extensive and Intensive Responses
Laurence Jacquet, Etienne Lehmann, Bruno Van der Linden
published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2013, 148 (5), 1770-1805
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4832
A Simple Theory of Optimal Redistributive Taxation with Equilibrium Unemployment
Mathias Hungerbühler, Etienne Lehmann, Alexis Parmentier, Bruno Van der Linden
published in: Economie Publique/Public Economics, 2012, 22-23 (1-2), 203-218
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4662
Outsourcing, Public Input Provision and Policy Cooperation
Thomas Aronsson, Erkki Koskela
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4629
Efficient Subsidization of Human Capital Accumulation with Overlapping Generations and Endogenous Growth
Wolfram F. Richter, Christoph Braun
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4598
Accounting for Family Background when Designing Optimal Income Taxes: A Microeconometric Simulation Analysis
Rolf Aaberge, Ugo Colombino
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2012, 25 (2), 741-761
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4511
Pro-Poor Tax Reforms, with an Application to Mexico
Jean-Yves Duclos, Paul Makdissi, Abdelkrim Araar
published as 'Pro-Poor Indirect Tax Reforms, with an Application to Mexico' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2014, 21(1), 87-118
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4196
Optimal Redistributive Taxation and Provision of Public Input Goods in an Economy with Outsourcing and Unemployment
Thomas Aronsson, Erkki Koskela
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4189
Relational Contracts, Taxation and the Household
Patricia Apps, Ray Rees
published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2011, 57 (2), 245-258
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3819
Optimal Income Taxation of Married Couples: An Empirical Analysis of Joint and Individual Taxation
Peter Haan, Dolores Navarro
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3804
Optimal Income Taxation with Endogenous Participation and Search Unemployment
Etienne Lehmann, Alexis Parmentier, Bruno Van der Linden
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (11-12), 1523-1537
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3451
Efficient Tax Policy Ranks Education Higher Than Saving
Wolfram F. Richter
revised version based on DP 2328 and DP 3451 published as "Taxing education in Ramsey's tradition" in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (11-12), 1254-1260
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3233
Gender Based Taxation and the Division of Family Chores
Alberto Alesina, Andrea Ichino, Loukas Karabarbounis
published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2011, 3 (2), 1-40
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3109
Family Bargaining and Taxes: A Prolegomenon to the Analysis of Joint Taxation
Robert Pollak
published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2011, 57 (2), 216-244
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3041
Individual Responsibility and the Funding of Collective Goods
Louis Lévy-Garboua, Claude Montmarquette, Marie Claire Villeval
revised and augmented version published as 'Voluntary Contributions to a Mutual Insurance Pool' in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2017, 19 (1), 198-218
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2957
On the Optimality of a Minimum Wage: New Insights from Optimal Tax Theory
Mathias Hungerbühler, Etienne Lehmann
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (3-4), 464-481
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2910
The Taxation of Couples
Patricia Apps, Ray Rees
published as "Optimal Taxation and Tax Reform for Two-Earner Households" in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2011, 57 (2), 283-304
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2669
A Theory of Child Targeting
Olivier B. Bargain, Olivier Donni
published as 'Targeting and Child Poverty' in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2012, 39(4), 783-808
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2468
Designing Optimal Taxes with a Microeconometric Model of Household Labour Supply
Rolf Aaberge, Ugo Colombino
revised version published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2013, 115 (2), 449-475
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2424
Making Work Pay for the Elderly Unemployed: Evaluating Alternative Policy Reforms for Germany
Peter Haan, Viktor Steiner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2277
Pareto-Improving Bequest Taxation
Volker Grossmann, Panu Poutvaara
published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2009, 16 (5), 647-669
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2081
Optimal Accumulation in an Endogenous Growth Setting with Human Capital
Frédéric Docquier, Oliver Paddison, Pierre Pestieau
published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2006, 134 (1), 361-378
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