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Income-dependent equivalence scales and choice theory implications for poverty measurement
Koulovatianos, Christos; Schröder, Carsten - 2022
affect poverty assessments and poverty lines. We address the disadvantage that poor households may suffer due to their …, as it seems to have a substantial quantitative impact on the measurement of poverty. We also suggest that future research … poverty and may guide anti-poverty policies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801875
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Decomposing permanent and transitory poverty
Goebel, Jan - 2001
poverty as a whole. The paper shows that the widely used Shorrocks-Index for decomposing permanent and transitory inequality … can also be acquired to describe poverty. This method overcomes certain difficulties involved in the methods of Rodgers … & Rodgers (1993). The characteristics of the proposed Poverty-Stability-Index allow for an intuitive differentiation between the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434324
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Gini and Optimal Income Taxation by Rank
Simula, Laurent - 2020
We solve the non-linear income tax program for a rank-dependent social welfare function à la Yaari, expressing the trade-off between size and inequality using the Gini or related families of positional indices. The key idea is that when agents optimize and absent bunching, ranks in the actual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839709
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841621
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The Equal-Sacrifice Social Welfare Function with an Application to Optimal Income Taxation
Berg, Kristoffer - 2020
We propose and axiomatically characterize a family of welfare criteria that prioritize individuals making larger sacrifices. By combining efficiency with a concern for equality of sacrifice, our criteria avoid serious shortcomings of utilitarianism. We illustrate our results within the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824737
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Bunching and Rank-Dependent Optimal Income Taxation
Simula, Laurent - 2020
We consider optimal non-linear income tax problems when the social welfare function only depends on ranks as in Yaari (1987) and weights agree with the Lorenz quasi-ordering. Gini, S-Gini, and a class putting more emphasis on inequality in the upper part of the distribution belong to this set....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827661
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Modelling low income transitions
Cappellari, Lorenzo; Jenkins, Stephen - 2002
genuine state dependence in poverty. We also provide estimates of low income transition rates and lengths of poverty and non-poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436237
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Poverty and Individual Responsibility
Piacquadio, Paolo G. - 2020
Poverty-reducing policies ought to prioritize the "deserving" poor, that is, those who do all that can be reasonably … of poverty indices that address these issues. Formally, poverty is measured by the sum of specific indices of individual … are unwilling to accept a job that brings them out of poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838242
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Estimating welfare indices : household weights and sample design
Cowell, Frank A.; Jenkins, Stephen - 2000
The techniques of simple random sampling are seldom appropriate in the empirical analysis of income distributions. Various types of weighting schemes are usually required either from the point of view of welfare-economic considerations (the mapping of household/family distributions into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433685
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Costs of Taxation and Benefits of Public Goods with Multiple Taxes and Goods
Anderson, James E. - 2017
The recent public economics literature involves an apparent consensus that income effects reduce the costs of raising revenues and hence increase the desirable level of public good provision. Higher taxes can indeed reduce the demand for leisure -- and hence increase the supply of taxed labor --...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976385