IN‐KIND VERSUS CASH TRANSFERS IN THE PRESENCE OF DISTORTIONARY TAXES
作者:
FIROUZ GAHVARI,
期刊:
Economic Inquiry
(WILEY Available online 1995)
卷期:
Volume 33,
issue 1
页码: 45-53
ISSN:0095-2583
年代: 1995
DOI:10.1111/j.1465-7295.1995.tb01845.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
In‐kind transfers can Pareto‐dominate cash transfers as a means of income redistribution if in‐kind transfers and leisure are Hicks substitutes and leisure is a normal good. The result holds when redistributive instruments also include a linear income tax. The paper proves that if the poor receive more in‐kind transfers (and the rich less) than what they would choose for themselves then, compared to cash transfers, there will be a higher labor supply by the poor, a lower labor supply by the rich, and higher levels of aggregate pre‐tax income and tax
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