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The Welfare Gains of Age Related Optimal Income Taxation
Bastani, Spencer; Blomquist, Sören; Micheletto, Luca - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2010
Using a calibrated overlapping generations model we quantify the welfare gains of an age dependent income tax. Agents face uncertainty regarding future abilities and can by saving transfer consumption across periods. The welfare gain of switching from an age-independent to an age-dependent...
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Income Satisfaction Inequality and its Causes
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M.S. Van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to an Income Satisfaction question posed in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Income satisfaction is the subjective analogue of the objective income concept and includes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256672
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On Income Inequality and Green Preferences
Marsiliani, Laura; Renström, Thomas I - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
We derive conditions of individual preferences and technology that give rise to a negative correlation between income inequality and environmental protection. We present a class of models (which captures a static model as well as an overlapping-generations model) in which individuals differ in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662063
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Optimal Utilitarian Taxation and Horizontal Equity
Jordahl, Henrik; Micheletto, Luca - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2002
We impose a horizontal equity restriction on the problem of finding the optimal utilitarian tax mix. The horizontal equity constraint requires that individuals with the same ability have to pay the same amount of taxes regardless of their preferences for leisure. Contrary to normal findings, we...
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Ageing Gracefully? A Bootstrap Analysis of Poverty Among Pensioners Using Evidence from the PACO Databases
Heinrich, Georges - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
of incomes of future generations. The purpose of this paper is two-fold. From a policy point of view, we analyse poverty … was expensive but that it provided effective - albeit not efficient - poverty relief. From a methodological point of view …, we demonstrate the usefulness of bootstrapping techniques for statistical inference for poverty and inequality measures …
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The Effect of Marital Breakup on the Income Distribution of Women with Children
Ananat, Elizabeth O.; Michaels, Guy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Having a female firstborn child significantly increases the probability that a woman’s first marriage breaks up. Recent work has exploited this exogenous variation to measure the effect of marital break-up on economic outcomes, and has concluded that divorce has little effect on women’s...
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Simulating the future of the Swedish baby-boom generations
Klevmarken, N. Anders; Bolin, Kristian; Eklöf, Matias; … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2007
For the purpose of studying the consequences of the ageing of the Swedish population a group of scientists have enlarged the microsimulation model SESIM - originally developed at the Swedish Ministry of Finance - with modules that simulate health status, take up of sickness benefits, retirement,...
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Community-based Development and Poverty Alleviation: An Evaluation of China’s Poor Village Investment Program
Park, Albert; Wang, Sangui - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
poverty alleviation program began in 2001 which finances public investments in designated poor villages based on participatory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468658
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Middlemen, Non-Profits and Poverty
Chau, Nancy H; Goto, Hideaki; Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
In many markets in developing countries, especially in remote areas, middlemen are thought to earn excessive profits. Non-profits come in to counter what is seen as middlemen's market power, and rich country consumers pay a 'fair-trade' premium for products marketed by such non-profits. This...
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Government Cash Transfers, Household Consumption, And Poverty Alleviation - The Case Of Russia
Richter, Kaspar - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
The paper develops a new approach to measuring the impact of government cash transfers on poverty alleviation that … of changes in government cash benefits on poverty rates in Russia during 1994 to 1998. The methodological contribution is … changes in the expenditure distribution excluding cash transfers on movements in poverty rates. At least 30% of the rise in …
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