Social insurance and the optimum piecewise linear income tax

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 371-388

  Strawczynski, Michel ^a  

^a The Bank of Israel   (Israel)

Author keywords

H21; Life uncertainty; Linear income tax; Precutionary behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001688268     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(98)00003-6     Document Type: Article

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