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Missing top incomes and tax-benefit microsimulation: evidence from correcting household survey data using tax records data

Ledić, Marko; Rubil, Ivica; Urban, Ivica - 2022

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013184519

Top incomes and top taxes in Germany

Bach, Stefan (contributor); Corneo, Giacomo (contributor); … - 2006

We analyze the distribution and taxation of top incomes in Germany during the 1990s on the basis of individual tax … findings are as follows: (i) incomes are highly concentrated in Germany, more than commonly thought; (ii) the German economic … concentrated in Germany, more than commonly thought; (iv) although effective tax rates are significantly lower than statutory ones …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003300942

Labor market policies and European crises

Bertola, Giuseppe - 2013

This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in order to stabilize labor incomes and redistribute resources. It proposes a specific stylized model where the tradeoffs facing labor policies are influenced by structural factors,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199422

Alternatives to paying child benefit to the rich : means testing or higher tax?

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray; Thoresen, Thor Olav; Vattø, … - 2020

Transferring public benefits to people in no need of them appears to be a waste of public money. Thus, there seems to be support for a move away from universal child benefits and towards means testing. This study presents a critique of this overly-simplistic view and proposes a very simple...

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Redistribution, horizontal inequity, and reranking : direct taxation in the UK, 1977-2020

Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2023

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Lifetime versus annual tax progressivity : Sweden, 1968-2009

Bengtsson, Niklas; Holmlund, Bertil; Waldenström, Daniel - 2012

This paper analyzes the evolution of tax progressivity in Sweden from both annual and lifetime perspectives. Using a rich micro panel with administrative records of incomes, taxes and benefits over the period 1968–2009, we calculate tax rates across the income distribution accounting for...

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Top incomes, rising inequality, and welfare

Lansing, Kevin J.; Markiewicz, Agnieszka - 2015

We introduce permanently-shifting income shares into a standard growth model with two types of agents. Capital owners represent the top quintile of U.S. households while workers represent the remainder. Our tractable model allows us to exactly replicate the observed U.S. time paths of the top...

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The efficiency and equity of the tax and transfer system in France

Égert, Balázs - 2013

Taxes and cash transfers reduce income inequality more in France than elsewhere in the OECD, because of the large size of the flows involved. But the system is complex overall. Its effectiveness could be enhanced in many ways, for example so as to achieve the same amount of redistribution at...

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Universal basic income programs : how much would taxes need to rise? : evidence for Brazil, Chile, India, Russia, and South Africa

Enami, Ali; Gentilini, Ugo; Larroulet, Patricio; … - 2021

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To what extent are public pensions Pareto-improving? : on the interaction of means tested basic income and public pensions

Fenge, Robert; Weizsäcker, Jakob von - 1999

If there is a means tested basic income for old age, households will tend to reduce precautionary savings to an inefficiently low level. This might serve as a justification for a public pension system. In a representative agent framework, indeed, the introduction of a compulsory pension s ystem...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781692

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