Search Results - subject:"taxes and transfers"

Understanding changes in the distribution and redistribution of income : a unifying decomposition framework

Hérault, Nicolas; Azpitarte, Francisco - In: The review of income and wealth : journal of the … 62 (2016) 2, pp. 266-282

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Nonconnectedness of the set of bankruptcy-free money equilibria in the static economy : a constructive example

Kang, Minwook - In: Macroeconomic dynamics 18 (2014) 7, pp. 1539-1546

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Strengthening Social Cohesion in Luxembourg: Making Efficiency and Equity Go Hand in Hand

Fournier, Jean-Marc; Garcia, Clara - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

Luxembourg is a rich and fast-growing country. However, inequality of disposable incomes has trended up modestly over the past decades and relative poverty has risen reflecting mainly the rapid growth of high incomes. The relatively high inequality of market incomes is substantially reduced by...

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14.64 Labor Economics and Public Policy, Spring 2006

Angrist, Joshua David - 2006

: labor supply and demand, taxes and transfers, human capital, minimum wages, income distribution, unions and strikes …

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Are Progressive Fiscal Rules Stabilizing?

Dromel, Nicolas; Pintus, Patrick-Antoine - HAL - 2006

This paper studies how income-based, progressive taxes and transfers may reduce aggregate volatility by protecting the … to inelastic. However, progressive taxes and transfers are shown to be ineffective to rule out stable deterministic … mostly finances consumption, we show that progressive taxes and transfers should be made dependent on labor income, so as to …

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Redistributive taxation and personal bankruptcy in US states

Grant, Charles; Koeniger, Winfried - 2005

Both personal bankruptcy and redistributive taxes can insure households' consumption risk and both vary considerably across US states. We derive sufficient conditions under which more redistributive taxation makes bankruptcy exemptions less attractive both for the intratemporal insurance and for...

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Labour Supply Incentives in Alternative Tax and Transfer Schemes: A Diagrammatic Introduction

Creedy, John - 2003

and transfers, using only basic diagrammatic methods. It describes a range of diagrams which are helpful in thinking about …The aim of this paper is to illustrate some of the complexities involved in modelling the incentive effects of taxes …

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Labour Supply Incentives in Alternative Tax and Transfer Schemes: A Diagrammatic Introduction

Creedy, John - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2003

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International trends in income inequality and social policy

Caminada, Koen; Goudswaard, Kees - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001

In most OECD-countries income inequality has increased during the last two decades. In this paper, we investigate whether changes in the overall distribution of income can be attributed to social policy measures. For most (but not all) countries we find a possible relationship between changing...

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Social policy and income distribution: An empirical analysis for the Netherlands

Caminada, Koen; Goudswaard, Kees - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999

In most OECD-countries income inequality has increased during the last two decades. In this paper, we investigate to what extent changes in the overall distribution of incomes can be attributed to social policy measures. The case for the Netherlands is particularly interesting, because the Dutch...

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