Showing papers in "Journal of Public Economics in 1978"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a revision of "Unemployment insurance as a social insurance program" presented at the ISPE Conference on Social Insurance held near Tokyo, Japan in May 1977.

TL;DR: In this paper, tax evasion behavior of 15 subjects was observed in a game-simulation context, and large fines were found to be more effective deterrents than frequent audits, while the decision to underreport income was influenced by different factors than the magnitude of underreporting.

TL;DR: The authors provide an empirical comparison of the traditional regression approach using average per capita income with the median voter approach to public expenditure and explicitly take account of the institutional aspects of collective decisions, showing that differences in institutions signilicantly affect outcomes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied a model in which the ability to supply labour is affected by a random variable (health) not observable by government and found that at the optimums consumers are indifferent whether to work or not, but do work when able.

TL;DR: The authors extended the rational choice theory of electoral competition to include the election of representatives from separate districts, ombudsman activities by legislators, self-interested bureaucrats and production functions for public activities that have bureaucratic and non-bureaucratic arguments.

TL;DR: In this article, a wide variety of assumptions are made concerning the behaviour of economic and political decision-makers concerning the behavior of voters and government, as well as the economic and economic sectors.

TL;DR: In this paper, a quantitative method is developed to judge the validity of the second best pricing argument and it is applied to the best available evidence on peak and off-peak bus, rail and private car models in Greater London.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the potential inducement to retire earlier and the effects on lifetime savings in the presence of social security and proposed a model of intertemporal utility maximization by individuals with endogenous retirement age.

TL;DR: In this paper, a voting procedure for revealing preferences for public goods is described, which consists of two steps: a proposal by each committee member to be added along with the status quo to form the issue set, and then, subsequent to a random determination of voting order, the elimination of one proposal from the list of proposals from each committee members.

TL;DR: In this paper, a parametric preference function is specified, which makes it possible to separate and quantify three different effects, i.e., the degree of income inequality aversion, external social costs induced by the consumption of certain commodities, and implicit equivalent income scales.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed a new and rich body of data on the elderly to study the supply side of the effect of social security on the early retirement decision, and proposed a new way of estimating retirement behavior.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the possible selection of tax instruments as a means of inducing a Leviathan-like government to provide the public goods and services that taxpayer-beneficiaries desire.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors considered an economy with H households, N + 1 commodities and M fixed factors with commodity taxes and government expenditures on goods and services and derived both the changes in prices and in real incomes that are induced by (small) changes in exogenous tax variables.

TL;DR: In this article, a perfect capital market model is developed and solved explicitly for a constant absolute risk aversion utility function, where low replacement rates (less than 50%) are optimal for realistic parameter values and if there is no lending or borrowing the optimal rates rise to about 75%.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the true effect of a subsidy on the receiver's resource constraint can not be read from nominal administrative requirements and therefore, an indirect statistical method is required to discover the shape of the post subsidy budget line.

TL;DR: In contrast to several earlier empirical studies that implied that social security does depress national saving, the current time series evidence suggests that the growth of private pensions has not had an adverse effect on saving and may have increased saving as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the economic efficiency of income testing is analyzed, including distortions of household behavior and the total administrative costs of the tax-transfer system, and the conditions under which the CIT is more efficient than a comparable NIT are presented.

TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical analysis of the supply curve of labor under the particular nonlinear budget constraint arising from earnings-tested income maintenance programs is presented, and the joint effects of the income benefit, the implicit tax on earnings and the earnings disregard are analyzed.

TL;DR: In this paper, a unified development of Arrow's impossibility theorem for rational group decisions, Gibbard and Satterthwaite's theorem for strategy-proof group decision, and the close reciprocal relationship that exists between these two theorems is discussed.

TL;DR: An overview of a Marxist approach to the theory of state expenditure is presented in this paper, which locates the problem of State expenditure in relation to the development of capitalism, without falling into reductionist or functionalist formulations.

TL;DR: In this article, the incentive for potential club members to form private good clubs is an average cost function that is decreasing over at least part of its range, and benefits to club members are measured by consumer's surplus, and a game theoretic characteristic function is used to describe total club benefits.