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disaggregated French panel data from 2003 to 2006. It incorporates household price responsiveness that differs across income groups … into a consumer surplus measure of tax burden. Carbon taxation is regressive before revenue recycling. However, taking into …
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This paper presents series on top shares of income in Argentina from 1932 to 2004 based on personal income tax return … statistics. Our results suggest that income concentration was higher during the 1930s and the first half of the 1940s than it is …
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We examine how changes in tax policies affect the dynamics of the distributions of wealth and income in a Ramsey model … determining inequality, as tax changes that affect hours of work will affect the distribution of wealth and income, reinforcing or … associated with lower output but also with a more equal distribution of after-tax income. We illustrate these effects by …
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margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same data, inequality aversion is measured as the degree of redistribution …
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We show the existence of a twin peaks relation between trust and the size of the welfare state that stems from two opposing forces. Uncivic people support large welfare states because they expect to benefit from them without bearing their costs. But civic individuals support generous benefits...
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. Measuring individualism and the demand for redistribution by questions of the General Social Survey (GSS), we show that: (i …) individuals living in states with mineral resources are more individualistic and support less redistribution by the government … ; (ii) the higher the number of mines in a states, the lower the support for governmental redistribution and the higher the …
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An early death is, undoubtedly, a serious disadvantage. However, the compensation of short-lived individuals has remained so far largely unexplored, probably because it appears infeasible. Indeed, short-lived agents can hardly be identified ex ante, and cannot be compensated ex post. We argue...
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In this paper, we highlight the link between the political demand and social policy outcome while taking into account the design of the party system. The political demand is measured by individual preferences and the design of the party system is defined as the extent of party fractionalization....
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alternative institutional options: the degree of labour market flexibility and the intensity of redistribution. We show that the … (positive flexibility versus positive redistribution). …
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. Measuring individualism and the demand for redistribution by questions of the General Social Survey (GSS), we show that: (i …) individuals living in states with mineral resources are more individualistic and support less redistribution by the government … ; (ii) the higher the number of mines in a states, the lower the support for governmental redistribution and the higher the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325722