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Optimal taxation and social insurance in a lifetime perspective

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dc.creator Bovenberg, Ary Lans
dc.creator Sørensen, Peter Birch
dc.date 2006
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:03:14Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:03:14Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19154
dc.identifier ppn:510037682
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/19154
dc.description Advances in information technology have improved the administrative feasibility of redistribution based on lifetime earnings recorded at the time of retirement. We study optimal lifetime income taxation and social insurance in an economy in which redistributive taxation and social insurance serve to insure (ex ante) against skill heterogeneity as well as disability risk. Optimal disability benefits rise with previous earnings so that public transfers depend not only on current earnings but also on earnings in the past. Hence, lifetime taxation rather than annual taxation is optimal. The optimal tax-transfer system does not provide full disability insurance. By offering imperfect insurance and structuring disability benefits so as to enable workers to insure against disability by working harder, social insurance is designed to offset the distortionary impact of the redistributive labor income tax on labor supply.
dc.language eng
dc.relation CESifo working papers 1690
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject H21
dc.subject H55
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject optimal lifetime income taxation
dc.subject optimal social insurance
dc.subject Einkommensteuer
dc.subject Optimale Besteuerung
dc.subject Sozialversicherung
dc.subject Erwerbsunfähigkeit
dc.subject Ökonometrisches Modell
dc.title Optimal taxation and social insurance in a lifetime perspective
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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