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2010. Para el análisis utilizamos indicadores de desigualdad basados en estadísticos de dispersión. Los resultados … fundamentales que obtenemos son que las transferencias tienen un importante efecto redistributivo que reduce la desigualdad en los … redistributive effect that reduces revenue inequality of the ACs. This effect began to be very different between the ACs 151 and 143 …
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There is much evidence against the so-called quot;too big to failquot; hypothesis in the case of bailouts to subnational governments. We look at a model where districts of different size provide local public goods with positive spillovers. Matching grants of a central government can induce...
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This paper develops a model of Tiebout sorting with decentrally determined progressive income taxation and a built-in fiscal equalization scheme that redistributes money from richer to poorer regions. Both aspects are central to policy makers: the progressivity for equity reasons and the fiscal...
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This paper develops a model of local income tax competition with a progressive tax scheme and a built-in fiscal equalization scheme. Both aspects are central to policy makers: The progressivity for equity reasons, and the fiscal equalization to prevent a race to the bottom and to limit the...
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Property taxes are the primary funding mechanism by which local governments pay for public goods. In the United States, the federal income tax system provides a subsidy to this cost by allowing taxpayers to deduct property taxes on their federal income tax returns. Using local referendum...
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Does globalization increase inequality in developing countries, and if so, how? In a theoretical model of a regionally … regional growth may also raise inequality within each region. It could even reduce absolute income per capita in the less … growth rates ave increased both interregional and intraregional inequality. Moreover, growth of skills-based export …
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We link administrative data on tax returns across two generations of Italians to study the degree of intergenerational mobility. We estimate that a child with parental income below the median is expected to belong to the 44th percentile of its own income distribution as an adult, and the...
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This paper studies the impact of economic inequality on political polarization. Using a unique dataset covering … different measures of regional income inequality as well as federal and state election outcomes at the county level in Germany …, we investigate whether inequality influences the share of votes for right-wing and left-wing extremist parties using …
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This paper aims to depict the post-Second World War poverty and inequality trends in Asia, its sub-regions, and … inequality in Asia. Analytical results confirm significant reductions in poverty across the board due to fast growth, although … expected to eradicate poverty but likely to continue facing high inequality, particularly as major technology breakthroughs …
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city's sociospatial inequality, degradation of the central districts and widespread irregularity, it illustrates how these …
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