2003

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• Voting under ignorance of job skills of unemployed: the overtaxation bias AI翻译
  作者：Laslier, JF; Trannoy, A; Van der Straeten, K
  作者单位：Institut Polytechnique de Paris; Ecole Polytechnique; heSam Universite; Conservatoire National Arts & Metiers (CNAM); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); CY Cergy Paris Universite
  摘要：Usual models on voting over basic income-flat tax schedules rest on the assumption that voters know the whole distribution of skills even if at equilibrium some individuals do not work. If individuals' productivity remains unknown until they work, it may be more convincing to assume that voters have only beliefs about the distribution of skills and that a learning process takes place. In this paper, at each period, individuals vote according to their beliefs which are updated when getting new ...
• To what extent do fiscal regimes equalize opportunities for income acquisition among citizens? AI翻译
  作者：Roemer, JE; Aaberge, R; Colombino, U; Fritzell, J; Jenkins, SP; Lefranc, A; Marx, I; Page, M; Pommer, E; Ruiz-Castillo, J; San Segundo, MJ; Tranaes, T; Trannoy, A; Wagner, GG; Zubiri, I
  作者单位：Yale University; Statistics Norway; University of Turin; Stockholm University; University of Essex; CY Cergy Paris Universite; University of Antwerp; University of California System; University of California Davis; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; Leibniz Association; DIW Berlin - Deutsches Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung; University of Basque Country
  摘要：This paper employs the theory of equality of opportunity, described in Roemer's book (Equality of Opportunity, Harvard University Press, 1998), to compute the extent to which tax-and-transfer regimes in I I countries equalize opportunities among citizens for income acquisition. Roughly speaking, equality of opportunity for incomes has been achieved in a country when it is the case that the distributions of post-fisc income are the same for different types of citizen, where a citizen's type is ...
• Centralized versus decentralized provision of local public goods: a political economy approach AI翻译
  作者：Besley, T; Coate, S
  作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Cornell University
  摘要：This paper takes a fresh look at the trade-off between centralized and decentralized provision of local public goods. It argues that the sharing of the costs of local public spending in a centralized system will create a conflict of interest between citizens in different jurisdictions. When spending decisions are made by a legislature of locally elected representatives, this conflict of interest will play out in the legislature. Depending on precisely how the legislature behaves, the result ma...
• International emissions trading with endogenous allowance choices AI翻译
  作者：Helm, C
  作者单位：Humboldt University of Berlin
  摘要：This paper compares endogenous choices of tradable and non-tradable emission allowances by non-cooperative countries. I find that the cost savings of trading do not necessarily lead to less pollution. In particular, environmentally more concerned countries usually choose less allowances if these are tradable, but this may be offset by the choice of more allowances on the side of environmentally less concerned countries. Moreover, if the establishment of a trading system requires the unanimous ...
• Why pay more? Corporate tax avoidance through transfer pricing in OECD countries AI翻译
  作者：Bartelsman, EJ; Beetsma, RMWJ
  作者单位：Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; University of Amsterdam; University of Amsterdam; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  摘要：This paper presents suggestive evidence of income shifting in response to differences in corporate tax rates for a large selection of OECD countries. We use a new method to disentangle the income shifting effects from the effects of tax rates on real activity. Our baseline estimates suggest that a substantial share of the revenues from a unilateral increase in the corporate tax rate is lost because of a decline in reported income. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
• The dynamic implications of search discrimination AI翻译
  作者：Arcidiacono, P
  作者单位：Duke University
  摘要：Blacks have both lower employment rates and lower earnings than whites. Further, the earnings gap increases as workers age. This paper focuses on explaining differences in black/white earnings profiles and how government interventions work in a dynamic environment. Three contributions are made. Firstly, multiple equilibria may exist solely because of a coordination failure by firms. Even without taste discrimination, blacks may play no role in their poor labor market outcomes. Secondly, search...
• Does immigration induce 'native flight' from public schools into private schools? AI翻译
  作者：Betts, JR; Fairlie, RW
  作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego; University of California System; University of California Santa Cruz; Northwestern University; University of Chicago
  摘要：The paper tests whether native-born American families respond to inflows of immigrants by sending their children to private school. The analysis uses 1980 and 1990 Census data from 132 metropolitan areas. For primary school students, no significant relation between immigration and private school enrolment is found. For secondary schools, a significant link emerges. For every four immigrants who arrive in public high schools, it is estimated that one native student switches to a private school....
• Population mobility and transboundary environmental problems AI翻译
  作者：Hoel, M; Shapiro, P
  作者单位：University of Oslo; University of Melbourne; University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara
  摘要：A standard result in the literature on environmental economics is that efficient environmental policies regulating transboundary pollution will be adopted only if there is interjurisdictional coordination. Efficient policies can be adopted as a result of interregional treaties or mandated by a central authority. The present paper demonstrates that if there is perfect population mobility between the regions affected by the transboundary pollution, the efficient outcome is a Nash equilibrium of ...
• Intergenerational transfers, production and income distribution AI翻译
  作者：Zilcha, I
  作者单位：Tel Aviv University
  摘要：We consider an overlapping-generations economy where the aggregative production process uses physical capital and human capital. Intergenerational transfers from parents to their children are motivated by 'altruism'. We distinguish between two types of transfers: Investment of parents in the education of their offspring, and capital transfer (the 'gift-bequest motive'). We show that the intensity of each type of altruism, and hence the composition of the two types of transfers, affect signific...
• Optimal non-linear income taxation for reduction of envy AI翻译
  作者：Nishimura, Y
  作者单位：Queens University - Canada
  摘要：This paper examines the optimal non-linear income taxation problem based on lambda-equitability. An allocation is A-equitable if no agent envies a proportion A of the bundle of any other agent. We examine the properties of Pareto undominated allocations for various lambda-equitability requirements. When there is one output, the marginal income tax rate can increase only if leisure is a luxury. In a multi-commodity model with commodity taxes, the goods preferred by the low skilled agent and/or ...