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Taxes and Income Distribution in Chile : Some Unpleasant Redistributive Arithmetic
Engel, Eduardo M.R.A. - 1998
redistribution through progressivity of the tax system is rather limited. By contrast, for parameter values observed in Chile, and …This paper quantifies the direct impact of taxes on income distribution at the household level in Chile and estimates …
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Left, Right, Left : Income, Learning and Political Dynamics
Morrow, John - 2013
The political left turn in Latin America, which lagged its transition to liberalized market economies by a decade or more, challenges conventional economic explanations of voting behavior. This paper generalizes the forward-looking voter model to a broad range of dynamic, non-concave income...
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Macroeconomía del populismo en la América Latina
Dornbusch, Rudiger (contributor);  … - 1992 - 1. ed
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Optimal Income Transfer Programs : Intensive Versus Extensive Labor Supply Responses
Saez, Emmanuel - 2000
income distribution and the redistribution tastes of the government. When behavioral responses are concentrated along the …
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How Effective is Redistribution Under the Social Security Benefit Formula?
Gustman, Alan L. - 2000
for participants in the Health and Retirement Study to investigate redistribution under the current social security … high lifetime earnings to those with low lifetime earnings. However, much of this apparent redistribution is from men to … the total lifetime earnings, and spouse and survivor benefits are taken into account, the extent of redistribution from …
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Differential Mortality and the Value of Individual Account Retirement Annuities
Brown, Jeffrey R. - 2000
This paper examines the extent of redistribution that would occur under various annuity and bequest options as part of … account balance. However, efforts to reduce the extent of redistribution generally do so at the cost of significantly lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471215
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The Progressivity of Social Security
Coronado, Julia Lynn - 2000
How much does the current social security system really redistribute from rich to poor? We use the PSID to estimate lifetime wage profiles and actual earnings each year for a sample of 1778 individuals, and we use mortality probabilities to calculate expected payroll taxes and social security...
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Trade, Income Inequality, and Government Policies : Redistribution of Income or Education Subsidies?
Janeba, Eckhard - 2000
skills or not. The government influences individual decision-making by redistribution of income or by subsidizing investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471291
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Redistribution Through Public Employment : The Case of Italy
Alesina, Alberto - 1999
This paper examines the regional distribution of public employment in Italy. It documents two sets of facts. This first is the use of public employment as a subsidy from the North to the less wealthy South. We calculate that about half of the wage bill in the South of Italy can be identified as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471398
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Tax and Education Policy in a Heterogeneous Agent Economy : What Levels of Redistribution Maximize Growth and Efficiency?
Benabou, Roland - 1999
costs and benefits of redistribution are generally of the same order of magnitude, resulting in reasonable values for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471662