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A joint top income and wealth distribution
Steiner, Viktor; Zhu, Junyi - 2021
Top distributions of income and wealth are still incompletely measured in many national statistics, particularly when using survey data. This paper develops the technique of incorporating the joint distributional relationship to enhance the estimation of these two top distributions by using the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424292
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Does size matter? The impact of changes in household structure on income distribution in Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - 2010
Income inequality in Germany has been continuously increasing during the past 20 years. In general, this is understood as an increase in inequality of wages due to changes in bargaining power of employees. However, the role of changing household structure is widely neglected. Societal trends...
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Relative deprivation, personal income satisfaction, and average well-being under different income distributions
Seidl, Christian; Traub, Stefan; Morone, Andrea - 2005
This paper uses the data gained from an income categorization experiment for five shapes of income distributions to investigate background context effects, relative deprivation, range-frequency theory to explain background context effects, individual income satisfaction versus aggregate...
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Measuring inequality without the Pigou-Dalton condition
Chateauneuf, Alain; Moyes, Patrick - 2005
Typical welfare and inequality measures are required to be Lorenz consistent which guarantees that inequality decreases and welfare increases as a result of a progressive transfer. We explore the implications for welfare and inequality measurement of substituting the weaker absolute...
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Horizontal equity in the German tax-benefit system : a simulation approach for employees
Bönke, Timm; Eichfelder, Sebastian - 2010
We analyze the distributive justice of the combined burden of taxes, social security contributions and public transfers on employee households. In order to investigate whether the treatment of families by the aggregate tax-benefit system can be regarded as "fair" we compare the equivalent...
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Gini decompositions and Gini elasticities : on measuring the importance of income sources and population subgroups for income inequality
Jurkatis, Simon; Strehl, Wolfgang - 2014
This paper points to flaws in Gini decompositions by income sources and population subgroups and to common pitfalls in … this framework Gini elasticities may provide the only meaningful way to examine the relevance of income sources or … in the Gini coefficient and provide a coherent method to decompose the Gini trend by income sources. We add to the recent …
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Optimal Redistributive Wealth Taxation When Wealth is More than Just Capital
Franks, Max - 2020
We show how normative standpoints determine optimal taxation of wealth. Since wealth is not equal to capital, we find very different welfare implications of land rent-, bequest- and capital taxation. It is mainly land rents that should be taxed. We develop an overlapping generations model with...
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Does a Wealth Tax Improve Equality of Opportunity?
Berg, Kristoffer; Hebous, Shafik - 2021
Does parental wealth inequality impact next generation labor income inequality? And does a tax on parental wealth affect the labor income distribution of the next generation? We tackle both questions empirically using detailed intergenerational data from Norway, focusing on effects on wages...
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Gathering Support for Green Tax Reform : Evidence from German Household Surveys
van der Ploeg, Rick; Rezai, Armon; Tovar, Miguel - 2021
Green tax reform is unpopular because, typically, the poor are hurt most by the higher prices of carbon-intensive commodities. If revenues from a carbon tax are recycled, it may be feasible to gain popular support for green tax reform. To investigate this, we estimate an EASI demand system from...
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Misperceiving Economic Success : Experimental Evidence on Meritocratic Beliefs and Inequality Acceptance
Fehr, Dietmar; Vollmann, Martin - 2022
Meritocratic beliefs are often invoked as justification of inequality. We provide evidence on how meritocratic beliefs are shaped by economic status and how they contribute to the moral justification of inequality. In a large-scale survey experiment in the US, we show that success causes a...
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