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UK Households' Carbon Footprint: A Comparison of the Association between Household Characteristics and Emissions from Home Energy, Transport and Other Goods and Services
Buchs, Milena; Schnepf, Sylke V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Does the association between household characteristics and household CO2 emissions differ for different areas such as … compares how household characteristics like income, household size, rural/urban location and education level differ in their … association with home energy, transport, indirect and total emissions. We find that the association between household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959530
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Is a Flat Tax Feasible in a Grown-up Welfare State?
Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas; Schaefer, Thilo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The success of the flat rate tax in Eastern Europe suggests that this concept could also be a model for the welfare states of Western Europe. The present paper uses a simulation model to analyse the effects of revenue neutral flat rate tax reforms on equity and efficiency for the case of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822885
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The Impact of Redistributive Policies on Inequality in OECD Countries
Doerrenberg, Philipp; Peichl, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Recent discussions about rising inequality in industrialized countries have triggered calls for more government intervention and redistribution. Due to obvious behavioral effects caused by redistribution, it is however not clear whether redistributional policies are indeed able to combat...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279291
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Social Spending Generosity and Income Inequality: A Dynamic Panel Approach
Niehues, Judith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper explores if more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if redistributive outcomes are offset by behavioral disincentive effects. To account for the inherent endogeneity of social policies with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System GMM...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564705
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The Redistributive Effects of Tax Benefit Systems in the Enlarged EU
Fuest, Clemens; Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
How do different components of the tax and transfer systems affect disposable income inequality? This paper explores the redistributive effects of different tax benefit instruments in the enlarged EU based on two approaches. Inequality analysis based on the standard approach suggests that...
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Happiness and the Persistence of Income Shocks
Bayer, Christian; Juessen, Falko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We reassess the empirical effect of income and employment on self-reported well-being. Our analysis makes use of a novel two-step estimation procedure that allows applying instrumental variable regressions with ordinal observable data. As suggested by the theory of incomplete markets, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720076
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Nominal or Real? The Impact of Regional Price Levels on Satisfaction with Life
Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We study the effect of real versus nominal income on life satisfaction. According to economic theory real income, i.e., nominal income adjusted for purchasing power, should be the relevant source of life satisfaction. Previous work, however, has only studied the impact of nominal income. We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010638877
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Poverty in the Russian Federation
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M.S. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
poverty lines and poverty ratios derived from subjective questions used in a during data collection for a large household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762394
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Equity and Equality
Duclos, Jean-Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Is horizontal equity (HE) the "most widely accepted principle of equity"? Or does it stand in "opposition to the advancement of human welfare"? This paper argues that the case for the HE principle is not as straightforward as is usually thought and that it requires advanced notions of justice...
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Lifetime versus Annual Tax Progressivity: Sweden, 1968–2009
Bengtsson, Niklas; Holmlund, Bertil; Waldenström, Daniel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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