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Does income transparency affect support for redistribution? : evidence from Finland's tax day

Dunaiski, Maurice; Tukiainen, Janne - 2023

This paper examines whether income transparency - the public release of citizens' income information - affects support for redistribution. We leverage a quasi-experiment in Finland, where every year on the so-called tax day, the authorities release income information on Finland's top earners to...

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Child labor and the education of a society

Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans - 2001

We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital … into a condition of continuous growth through a program of taxes and transfers. Temporary inequality is a necessary … condition to escape in finite time, but long-run inequalities are avoidable provided sufficiently heavy, but temporary taxes can …

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The evolution of top incomes in an egalitarian society : Sweden, 1903 - 2004

Roine, Jesper (contributor); … - 2006

This study presents new homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden over the period 1903 to 2004. We find that, starting from higher levels of inequality than in other Western countries, the income share of the Swedish top decile drops sharply over the first eighty years of the century. The...

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Markups, taxes, and rising inequality

Auray, Stéphane; Eyquem, Aurélien; Garbinti, Bertrand; … - 2022

changes in markups, taxes, factor productivity, and asset prices affect inequality dynamics over the 1984-2018 period. Rising …

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Policy misperceptions, information, and the demand for redistributive tax reform : experimental evidence from Latin American countries

Ardanaz, Martin; Hübscher, Evelyne; Keefer, Philip; … - 2022

Why do individuals' preferences for redistribution often diverge widely from their material self-interest? Using an original online survey experiment spanning eight countries and 12,000 respondents across Latin America, one of the most unequal regions in the world, we find significant evidence...

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Critical Remarks on Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty-first Century'

Homburg, Stefan - 2014

This paper is about “Capital in the Twenty-first Century” by Thomas Piketty. It identifies his central macroeconomic claims and examines them, arguing that the contentions are theoretically and empirically unwarranted.

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Tax-benefit microsimulation in Ecuador : a feasibility study

Jara, H. Xavier - 2015

The aim of this study is to evaluate the feasibility to implement a tax and benefit microsimulation model for Ecuador using EUROMOD as an interface. We first present a detailed description of the main components of the tax and benefit system in Ecuador for year 2014. We then describe available...

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Redistributive effect and the progressivity of taxesand benefits : evidence for the UK, 1977-2018

Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2021

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EUROMOD baseline report

Maier, Sofía; Ricci, Mattia - 2022

This paper presents baseline results from the latest public version (I4.0+) of EUROMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the EU. We begin by briefly discussing the process of updating EUROMOD. We then present indicators for income inequality and at-risk-of-poverty using EUROMOD and...

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Redistributive effect and the progressivity of taxes and benefits: evidence for the UK, 1977-2018

Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2021

components using yearly UK data covering 1977-2018. We examine cash and in-kind benefits, and direct and indirect taxes. In … effects of direct and indirect taxes are mostly associated with changes in progressivity. For in-kind benefits, changes in the …

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