Income Redistribution

Toshihiro Ihori
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Toshihiro Ihori: National Gradual Institute for Policy Studies

Chapter 10 in Principles of Public Finance, 2017, pp 267-293 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Chapter 9 examined optimal taxation from the viewpoint of efficiency. Although this efficiency issue is an important topic of optimal taxation, the optimal tax literature also investigates the equity issue. This chapter examines income redistribution policy among heterogeneous individuals within the same generation.

Keywords: Social welfare function; Bentham judgment; Rawls judgment; Progressive income tax; Tax possibility curve; Paradoxical case of Laffer curve; Revenue-maximizing tax rate; Degree of optimal redistribution; Nonlinear income tax; Ability-specific lump sum tax; Self-selection constraint; Optimal marginal tax rate; Economic constraints; Asymmetric information; Stigma (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-2389-7_10

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