This paper examines the allocative implications of progressive income taxation when individuals care about their … relative income. It shows that tax progressivity might improve efficiency, and the more so in egalitarian economies …. Introducing a progressive income tax can yield a Pareto improvement if pre-tax income is evenly distributed. Implementing …

This paper provides an estimation of the size of income and demand automatic stabilizers in a representative sample of … size of income and demand automatic stabilizers coefficients is much smaller than the size of these coefficients in Europe … income stabilization coefficient and two others affecting directly the demand stabilization coefficient. The main results …

This paper argues that there is no country in Latin America where we can confidently say that income inequality … schooling are the main reason why income distribution has not improved in the 1990s. However, the lack of progress in income …

into education groups to determine whether there are differences in saving behavior along the distribution of income. Third …

This paper argues that the details of political institutions help explain the low levels of personal income taxation … 1990 and 2007, this paper finds that i) countries with historically more unequal distributions of wealth and income … lower shares of personal income taxes in GDP. present higher levels of legislative malapportionment, and ii) higher levels …

The use of income distribution indicators in the economics literature has increased considerably in recent years. This …

This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality … have shaped Argentina's income distribution: deep macroeconomic crisis and periods of openness and integration. The sizable … particular severity of the income distribution changes in Argentina. This paper was prepared for the Labor Markets and …

employment, and mean labor income by economic sector and education level. …