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Evaluating Real World Income Distributions behind the Veil of Ignorance - How Risk Averse do you have to be to Prefer Europe over the US?

Weichenrieder, Alfons; Zafar, Tasneem - CESifo - 2011

The paper uses a veil of ignorance approach and income distribution data of developed countries to arrive at inequality corrected income rankings. While a risk neutral individual (based on year 2000 data) would have preferred to be born into the US rather than any European country in our sample...

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Lifetime versus Annual Tax Progressivity: Sweden, 1968-2009

Bengtsson, Niklas; Holmlund, Bertil; Waldenström, Daniel - CESifo - 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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Does Size Matter? The Impact of Changes in Household Structure on Income Distribution in Germany

Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - CESifo - 2010

household structure is widely neglected. Societal trends like a decline in birth rate and an increase in the risk of divorce … paper is to quantify the proportion of changing household structures in the increase in inequality. We find that the rise in … inequality was indeed more due to changes of household structure and employment behavior rather than changes in wages. Moreover …

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Income Inequality and Export Prices across Countries

Flach, Lisandra; Janeba, Eckhard - CESifo - 2013

This paper provides first firm-level evidence of the links between income inequality and the patterns of trade and export prices. We identify a theoretical mechanism behind these links, which suggests that a more unequal income distribution leads to higher average prices. We test the theory...

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Efficiency, Equity, and Generalized Lorenz Dominance

Kleiber, Christian; Kraemer, Walter - CESifo - 2000

We decompose the generalized Lorenz order into a size and a distribution component. The former is represented by stochastic dominance, the latter by the standard Lorenz order. We show that it is always possible, given generalized Lorenz dominance between two distributions F and G, to find...

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Top Incomes and Top Taxes in Germany

Bach, Stefan; Corneo, Giacomo; Steiner, Viktor - CESifo - 2006

We analyze the distribution and taxation of top incomes in Germany during the 1990s on the basis of individual tax returns data. We derive a measure of economic income from taxable gross income as reported in the tax returns. Thanks to complete sampling, we can deliver a very precise description...

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The Impact of Trade on Employment, Welfare, and Income Distribution in Unionized General Oligopolistic Equilibrium

Egger, Hartmut; Etzel, Daniel - CESifo - 2009

This paper sets up a general oligopolistic equilibrium model with unionized labor markets. By accounting for productivity differences, the model features profit and wage differentials across industries. We use this setting to study the impact of trade liberalization on employment, welfare, and...

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Business Cycle Dynamics of a New Keynesian Overlapping Generations Model with Progressive Income Taxation

Heer, Burkhard; Maussner, Alfred - CESifo - 2006

In our dynamic optimizing sticky price model, agents are heterogeneous with regard to their age and their productivity. We find that the business cycle dynamics in the OLG model in response to both a technology shock and a monetary shock are similar, but not completely identical to those found...

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Income Inequality, Voting Over the Size of Public Consumption, and Growth

Grossmann, Volker - CESifo - 2002

According to a standard argument, higher income inequality fosters redistributive activities of the government in favor of the median income earner. This paper shows that if redistribution is achieved by a public provision of goods and services rather than by transfers, higher income inequality...

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The Distribution of Talent and the Pattern and Consequences of International Trade

Grossman, Gene - CESifo - 2002

In an economy with imperfect labor contracts, differences in the distribution of talent can be an independent source of comparative advantage. I study a world economy with two activities, one in which an individual's contribution to production can be measured accurately and another in which...

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