Weak differential monotonicity, flat tax, and basic income
- We suggest a weak version of differential monotonicity for redistribution rules: whenever the differential of two persons’ income weakly increases, then their post-redistribution rewards essentially change in the same direction. Together with efficiency, non-negativity, and the null society property, weak differential monotonicity essentially characterizes redistribution via taxation at a fixed rate and equal distribution of the total tax revenue, i.e., a flat tax and a basic income.
Document Type: | Working Paper |
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Language: | English |
Author: | Koji Yokote, André Casajus |
Chairs and Professorships: | Chair of Economics and Information Systems |
Parent Title (English): | HHL Working paper |
Series (Serial Number): | HHL-Arbeitspapier / HHL Working paper (157) |
Place of publication: | Leipzig |
Publisher: | HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management |
Year of Completion: | 2016 |
Page Number: | 9 |
Tag: | Basic income; Differential monotonicity; Flat tax; Redistribution; Weak differential monotonicity |
Licence (German): | ![]() |