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Redistributive Taxation in a Partial-Insurance Economy

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  • Kjetil Storesletten

    (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)

  • Giovanni L. Violante

    (New York University)

  • Jonathan Heathcote

    (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)

Abstract

We conduct a welfare analysis of redistributive labor taxation in a tractable heterogeneous-agents economy. We highlight four key considerations that determine the optimal overall progressivity of the tax schedule: (i) the preference weight on public consumption goods, (ii) the variance of idiosyncratic risk, (iii) the fraction of idiosyncratic risk that can be insured privately, and (iv) the elasticity of labor supply.

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Paper provided by Society for Economic Dynamics in its series 2010 Meeting Papers with number 1124.

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Date of creation: 2010
Handle: RePEc:red:sed010:1124
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  1. Bagchi, Shantanu, 2016. "Is The Social Security Crisis Really As Bad As We Think?," Macroeconomic Dynamics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 20(03), pages 737-776, April.
  2. Brinca, Pedro & Holter, Hans A. & Krusell, Per & Malafry, Laurence, 2016. "Fiscal multipliers in the 21st century," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 77(C), pages 53-69.
  3. Shantanu Bagchi, 2016. "Differential Mortality and the Progressivity of Social Security," Working Papers 2016-03, Towson University, Department of Economics, revised Aug 2016.
  4. Rong Hai, 2013. "The Determinants of Rising Inequality in Health Insurance and Wages: An Equilibrium Model of Workers' Compensation and Health Care Policies," PIER Working Paper Archive 13-019, Penn Institute for Economic Research, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania.
  5. Markus Poschke & Baris Kaymak, 2015. "The evolution of wealth inequality over half a century: the role of skills, taxes and institutions," 2015 Meeting Papers 967, Society for Economic Dynamics.

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