Arbeitspapier
Redistributive Taxation, Inequality, and Intergenerational Mobility
Education decisions determine a great part of future income. This paper argues that if education is financed by parents' current income a lump-sum tax reduces inequality if all parents have strict investment incentives. However, if some parents are indifferent there is a possible decrease in the wage gap via a contrary indirect tax effect which drops the returns of schooling. Under strict incentives social mobility is not affected, but it increases if skilled parents have weak incentives and decreases if unskilled parents are indifferent in their investment decision.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Diskussionspapier ; No. 68
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: Household
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making‡
Analysis of Education
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
- Subject
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Intergenerational mobility
Inequality
Redistribution
Lumpsum tax
Soziale Mobilität
Generationenbeziehungen
Bildungsinvestition
Einkommensumverteilung
Kopfsteuer
Einkommensverteilung
Theorie
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Schneider, Andrea
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Helmut-Schmidt-Universität - Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Fächergruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre
- (where)
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Hamburg
- (when)
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2007
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:gbv:705-opus-17026
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Schneider, Andrea
- Helmut-Schmidt-Universität - Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Fächergruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre
Time of origin
- 2007