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Can Redistributive State Taxes Reduce Inequality?

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

Do income taxes levied at a state or regional level affect the after-tax distribution of income? Or do workers merely move between regions, causing pre-tax wages to adjust? This question is relevant both in across states in the United States, and across countries within the European Union. Using...

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The Effects of Drug Subsidies on Out-of-Poket Prescription Drug Expenditures by seniors: regional Evidence from Canada.

Crossley, Thomas F.; Grootendorst, Paul; Kokkmaz, Sule; … - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2000

In this study we try to evaluate some of the redistributive aspects of public drug plan for seniors by examining the effects on out-of-pocket expenditures of such drug plan in Canada.

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Heterogeneity and Government Revenues: Higher Taxes at the Top?

Guner, Nezih; Lopez-Daneri, Martin; Ventura, Gustavo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We evaluate the effectiveness of a more progressive tax scheme in raising government revenues. We develop a life-cycle economy with heterogeneity and endogenous labor supply. Households face a progressive income tax schedule, mimicking the Federal Income tax, and flat-rate taxes that capture...

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Optimal Tax Progressivity: An Analytical Framework

Heathcote, Jonathan; Storesletten, Kjetil; Violante, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

What shapes the optimal degree of progressivity of the tax and transfer system? On the one hand, a progressive tax … earnings risk. At the same time, progressivity reduces incentives to work and to invest in skills, and aggravates the …, and market structure parameters influence the optimal degree of progressivity. A calibration for the U.S. economy …

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Flat Tax Reforms: Investment Expensing and Progressivity

Díaz-Giménez, Javier; Pijoan-Mas, Josep - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

progressivity in flat-tax reforms of the United States economy. We find that investment expensing as in the Hall and Rabushka type … expensing and varying degrees of progressivity reveal that the distributional role of the tax-exemption in the labor income tax … is limited. But we also find that the progressivity of the reforms matters for welfare: economies with more progressive …

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What's the monetary value of distributive justice?

Corneo, Giacomo; Fong, Christina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper develops a simple theoretical model that can be implemented to estimate the willingness to pay for distributive justice. We derive a formula that allows one to recover the willingness to pay for distributive justice from the estimated coefficients of a probit regression and fiscal...

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Monnet's Error?

Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Entering a currency union without any political union European countries have taken a gamble: will the needs of the currency union force a political integration (as anticipated by Monnet) or will the tensions create a backlash, as suggested by Kaldor, Friedman and many others? We try to answer...

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Do Food Scares Explain Supplier Concentration? An Analysis of EU Agri-food Imports

Cadot, Olivier; Jaud, Mélise; Suwa Eisenmann, Akiko - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper documents a decreasing trend in the geographical concentration of EU agro-food imports. Decomposing the concentration indices into intensive and extensive margins components, we find that the decrease in overall concentration indices results from two diverging trends: the pattern of...

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Self-employment of rural-to-urban migrants in China

Giulietti, Corrado; Ning, Guangjie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper focuses on the determinants of self-employment among rural to urban migrants in China. Two self-selection mechanisms are analysed: the first relates to the manner in which migrants choose self-employment or paid work based on the potential gains from either type of employment; the...

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Price, Wage and Employment Response to Shocks: Evidence from the WDN Survey

Bertola, Giuseppe; Dabusinskas, Aurelijus; Hoeberichts, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper analyses information from survey data collected in the framework of the Eurosystem’s Wage Dynamics Network (WDN) on patterns of firm-level adjustment to shocks. We document that the relative intensity and the character of price vs. cost and wage vs. employment adjustments in...

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