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Less Income Inequality and More Growth – Are They Compatible? Part 3. Income Redistribution via Taxes and Transfers Across OECD Countries
Joumard, Isabelle; Pisu, Mauro; Bloch, Debra - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
. The paper then assesses potential trade-offs and complementarities between economic growth and income redistribution … deux objectifs sont-ils compatibles ? : Partie 3. Redistribution du revenu par le biais de l'impôt et des transferts dans … croissance économique et de redistribution du revenu relatifs aux diverses possibilités de réforme des systèmes fiscaux et de …
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The Equity Implications of Fiscal Consolidation
Rawdanowicz, Łukasz; Wurzel, Eckhard; Christensen, Ane … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
In several OECD countries, ongoing fiscal consolidation might have a negative impact on the static income distribution. However, this conclusion should be treated only as an approximate first step in the analysis. A full assessment of distributional effects of consolidation packages would need...
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Income Inequality in the European Union
Fredriksen, Kaja Bonesmo - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
Poor growth performance over the past decades in Europe has increased concerns for rising income dispersion and social exclusion. European authorities have recently launched the Europe 2020 strategy which aims to improve social inclusion in Europe on top of already existing European regional...
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Some Issues Related to the Equity-Efficiency Trade-Off in the Swedish Tax and Transfer System
Strand, Henning - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 1999
système a des propriétés de redistribution très importantes qui sont mises clairement en évidence dans ce <I>Document de …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046201
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Strengthening Social Cohesion in Luxembourg: Making Efficiency and Equity Go Hand in Hand
Fournier, Jean-Marc; Garcia, Clara - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
Luxembourg is a rich and fast-growing country. However, inequality of disposable incomes has trended up modestly over the past decades and relative poverty has risen reflecting mainly the rapid growth of high incomes. The relatively high inequality of market incomes is substantially reduced by...
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Taxation and Economic Growth
Johansson, Åsa; Heady, Chistopher; Arnold, Jens; Brys, Bert - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008
This paper investigates the design of tax structures to promote economic growth. It suggests a “tax and growth” ranking of taxes, confirming results from earlier literature but providing a more detailed disaggregation of taxes. Corporate taxes are found to be most harmful for growth,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045631
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China's March to Prosperity: Reforms to Avoid the Middle-income Trap
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
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Enhancing Income Convergence in Central Europe after EU Accession
Lenain, Patrick; Rawdanowicz, Łukasz - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2004
After nearly fifteen years of transition, the countries of Central Europe have entered the European Union on 1 May 2004. For the four countries that are members of the OECD (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovak Republic), accession follows multiyear efforts of economic stabilisation and...
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Infrastructure and Growth: Empirical Evidence
Égert, Balázs; Koźluk, Tomasz; Sutherland, Douglas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009
Investment in network infrastructure can boost long-term economic growth in OECD countries. Moreover, infrastructure investment can have a positive effect on growth that goes beyond the effect of the capital stock because of economies of scale, the existence of network externalities and...
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Economic Uncertainties and their Impact on Activity in Greece compared with Ireland and Portugal
Schneider, Jan-David; Giorno, Claude - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014
Uncertainty faced by households and firms affects economic activity. The rise in uncertainty since the beginning of the sovereign debt crisis in Greece could be one factor that has contributed to the steep and long-lasting recession. This paper presents a brief empirical analysis quantifying...
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