Nonseparable preferences and optimal social security systems

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Borys Grochulski, Borys Grochu ...
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Nonseparable preferences and optimal social security systems

In this paper, we consider economies in which agents are privately informed about their skills, which are evolving stochastically over time. We require agents' preferences to be weakly separable between the lifetime paths of consumption and labor. However, we allow for intertemporal nonseparabilities in preferences like habit formation. We show that such nonseparabilities imply that optimal asset income taxes are necessarily retrospective in nature. We show that under weak conditions, it is possible to implement a socially optimal allocation using a social security system in which taxes on wealth are linear, and taxes/transfers are history-dependent only at retirement. The average asset income tax in this system is zero.

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English
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39

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Nonseparable preferences and optimal social security systems
2007, National Bureau of Economic Research
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Nonseparable preferences and optimal social security systems
2007, National Bureau of Economic Research
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"September 2007"

Includes bibliographical references (p. 39).

Also available in PDF from the NBER world wide web site (www.nber.org).

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Cambridge, Mass
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NBER working paper series -- no. 13362., Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 13362.

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39 p. ;
Number of pages
39

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OL17635085M
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173619315

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