Optimal incentives for labor force participation

An Exploration in the Theory of Optimum Income Taxation

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Using Elasticities to Derive Optimal Income Tax Rates

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Optimal income taxation : an example with a U-shaped pattern of optimal marginal tax rates

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Income taxation with fixed hours of work

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The Design of Income Maintenance Programmes

Tim Besley, Stephen Coate · The Review of Economic Studies · 1995 · 178 citations

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