1998 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Task-Sharing between National and Local Governments : Taxation and Social Security.
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09430017
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Public finance/Monetary economics
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| Research Institution | Hitotsubashi University |
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Principal Investigator |
ISHI Hiromitsu Graduate School of Economics, Professor, 大学院・経済学研究科, 教授 (60017530)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
WADA Junichiro Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Yokoyama City University, Asso, 商学部, 助教授 (30244502)
YAMASHIGE Shinji Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University, Associate Professor, 大学院・経済学研究科, 助教授 (20282931)
TADENUMA Koichi Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University, Associate Professor, 大学院・経済学研究科, 助教授 (50227112)
HORIBA Isao Department of Economics, Aoyama Gakuin University, Professor, 経済学部, 教授 (70173648)
TAJIKA Eiji Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University, Professor, 大学院・経済学研究科, 教授 (10179723)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1997 – 1998
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| Keywords | Local Public Finance / Local Allocation Tax / Subsidy / Decentralization / Local Tax / Business Tax / National Health Insurance / Long-Term Care Insurance |
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| Research Abstract |
In almost all countries, there are two levels of government, i.e., a national government and local governments. The decentralization, which has been going on in Japan, is, roughly speaking, the movement in which policies determined by the national government shall be determined by the local governments. A big issue here is a desirable task-sharing between the national and the local governments.
In our workshop, we have discussed this problem of desirable task-sharing between the two levels of governments, which contains several subtle issues, from the viewpoint of tax and social security system whose reconstruction will be one of the most important issues in Japan. Starting from the traditional theories on the desirable task-sharing between the national government and the local governments, we have tried to find new facts and to develop new theories on the desirable decentralized system.
Our research project can be divided into four parts : (1) theoretical reconsideration on the desirable task-sharing ; (2) desirable tax system under the decentralized system ; (3) supply of welfare services and the decentralized system ; (4) case studies on the task-sharing. One of our claims is that the present inter-regional, inter-generational, and inter-occupational redistribution rules have caused various problems in Japan, and thus we need to rebuild new redistribution rules for the future of Japan. Some results of our research project are collected in a report tilted as "Task-Sharing between National and Local Governments : Taxation and Social Security."
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