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The optimal two-bracket linear income tax

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Slemrod, Joel
Yitzhaki, Shlomo
Mayshar, Joram
Lundholm, Michael

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Volume (Year): 53 (1994)
Issue (Month): 2 (February)
Pages: 269-290
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  1. Sheshinski, Eytan, 1972. "The Optimal Linear Income-Tax," Review of Economic Studies, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 39(3), pages 297-302, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  6. J. A. Mirrlees, 1976. "Optimal Tax Theory: A Synthesis," Working papers 176, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics.
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  7. Sheshinski, Eytan, 1989. "Note on the shape of the optimum income tax schedule," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 40(2), pages 201-215, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  8. Yitzhaki, Shlomo, 1982. "A tax programming model," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 19(1), pages 107-120, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  11. Stiglitz, Joseph E., 1987. "Pareto efficient and optimal taxation and the new new welfare economics," Handbook of Public Economics, in: A. J. Auerbach & M. Feldstein (ed.), Handbook of Public Economics, edition 1, volume 2, chapter 15, pages 991-1042 Elsevier. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  2. Mihir A. Desai & Dhammika Dharmapala & Winnie Fung, 2005. "Taxation and the Evolution of Aggregate Corporate Ownership Concentration," NBER Working Papers 11469, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. Lundholm, Michael, 1999. "Comments on Social Insurance and the Optimum Piecewise Linear Income Tax," Research Papers in Economics 1999:8, Stockholm University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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