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Tax-benefit systems in Europe and the US: Between equity and efficiency
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Neumann, Dirk; … - 2011
Whether observed differences in redistributive policies across countries are the result of differences in social preferences or efficiency constraints is an important question that paves the debate about the optimality of welfare regimes. To shed new light on this question, we estimate labor...
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Gini and Optimal Income Taxation by Rank
Simula, Laurent - 2020
trade-off between size and inequality using the Gini or related families of positional indices. The key idea is that when …
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Bunching and Rank-Dependent Optimal Income Taxation
Simula, Laurent - 2020
(1987) and weights agree with the Lorenz quasi-ordering. Gini, S-Gini, and a class putting more emphasis on inequality in … for the maximin, Gini, and "illfare-ranked single-series Ginis". We then turn to a discrete population setting, and …
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