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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 …

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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. …

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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....

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The Social Cost of Carbon and Inequality : When Local Redistribution Shapes Global Carbon Prices

Kornek, Ulrike - 2019

The social cost of carbon is the central economic measure for aggregate climate change damages and functions as a metric for optimal carbon prices. Previous literature shows that inequality significantly influences the level of the social cost of carbon, but mostly neglects a major source of...

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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 Ã 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...

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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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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...

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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 …

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Social Exclusion and Optimal Redistribution

Aronsson, Thomas; Bastani, Spencer; Tayibov, Khayyam - 2021

We integrate social exclusion, operationalized in terms of long-term unemployment, into the theory of optimal redistributive taxation. Our results show how an optimal mix of education policy, public employment, and support to the unemployed, in conjunction with optimal income taxation,...

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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...

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