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Combining Rights and Welfarism: A New Approach to Intertemporal Evaluation of Social Alternatives
Long, Ngo Van; Martinet, Vincent - CESifo - 2012
We propose a new criterion which reflects both the concern for welfare (utility) and the concern for rights in the evaluation of economic development paths. The concern for rights is captured by a pre-ordering over combinations of thresholds (floors or ceilings on various quantitative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651182
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Optimal Piecewise Linear Income Taxation
Apps, Patricia; Long, Ngo Van; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Given its significance in practice, piecewise linear taxation has received relatively little attention in the literature. This paper offers a simple and transparent analysis of its main characteristics. We fully characterize optimal tax parameters for the cases in which budget sets are convex...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325435
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Rank, Income and Income Inequality in Urban China
Gustafsson, Björn; Sai, Ding - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
of the urban population in work-active ages and use data from the Chinese Income Project (CHIP) covering eastern, central … being employed as a worker of high rank. There is relatively little income inequality among workers of high rank as well as … among workers of middle rank. Mean income and household wealth per capita of highly-ranked workers developed more favorably …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822171
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Optimal Piecewise Linear Income Taxation
Apps, Patricia; Long, Ngo Van; Rees, Ray - CESifo - 2009
attention in the literature on optimal income taxation. This paper offers a simple and transparent analysis of its main …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181304