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Fiscal policy and income redistribution in Latin America: Challenging the conventional wisdom

Lustig, Nora - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011

argue that conventional wisdom may be wrong. First, the extent and effectiveness of income redistribution and poverty … hand, and the extent and effectiveness of redistribution, on the other: government size is similar for Argentina and … Bolivia but they are on opposite sides in terms of the extent of redistribution. Fourth, due to indirect taxes households are …

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Tax policy and income inequality in the U.S., 1978—2009: A decomposition approach

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to disentangle mechanical effects due to changes in pre-tax incomes from direct effects of policy reforms. While tax reforms implemented under Democrat administrations, in...

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Fiscal Incidence, Fiscal Mobility and the Poor: a New Approach

Lustig, Nora; Higgins, Sean - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012

Taxes and transfers can have significant impacts on poverty and inequality. All standard measures are by definition anonymous in the sense that we do not know the identity of winners and losers. That a given combination of taxes and transfers makes some of the poor poorer, however, may be...

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Contributions of taxes and benefits to vertical, horizontal and redistributive effects

Urban, Ivica - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ

acknowledged approaches in the study of income inequality and redistribution: Kakwani’s (1984) decomposition of redistributive …

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Preferences for redistribution after the economic crisis

Olivera, Javier - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2014

This paper analyses the effects of the recent Economic Crisis on individual preferences for redistribution in 23 … highly significant in increasing support for redistribution. It is found that more unemployment and, in particular, youth … unemployment has considerably raised the citizens’ demand for redistribution. …

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Inequality and growth in the context of the Mexican economy: Does inequality matter for growth?

Coll, Jorge Alberto Charles - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2014

This paper contributes to the debate over the relationship between inequality and inclusive growth by testing the proposition of a kinked-non linear relationship between income inequality and economic growth in a country specific context. The proposition is first confirmed with a wide panel...

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How do services of owner-occupied housing affect income inequality and redistribution?

Onrubia, Jorge; Rodado, M. Carmen; Ayala, Luis - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2009

redistribution. …

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Tax–Benefit Incidence. The Mexican experience during the last twenty years

Vargas-Téllez, César Octavio - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2009

income redistribution across Mexican households during the last twenty years, since during this period the Mexican economy …

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Monopoly, Inequality and Redistribution via the Public Provision of Private Goods

Moutos, Thomas; Katsimi, Margarita - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2006

The relationship between inequality and redistribution is usually studied under the assumption that the government …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125075

Skill Dynamics, Inequality and Social Policies

Bauduin, Nicolas; Hellier, Joël - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2006

redistribution policy makes it possible to increase output per capita and to reduce inequality because both increase the educated …

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