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Government Spending and Tax Revenue Decentralization and Public Sector Efficiency : Do Natural Disasters Matter?

Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venâncio, Ana - 2023

empirically link the public sector efficiency scores, to tax revenue and spending decentralization. First, we compute government … estimate the effect of decentralization on public sector efficiency and how extreme natural disasters mediate this relationship …. The sample covers 36 OECD countries between 2006 and 2019. Our results show that tax revenue decentralization decreases …

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Inequality Undermines Democracy and Growth

Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2019

Income equality and trust seem to go along with several other ingredients of social capital as determinants of economic growth across the globe. In a large sample of countries, equality in the distribution of income as measured by the World Bank and by The Standardized World Income Inequality...

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How Economic Growth Impinges on Income Inequalities?

Alves, José; Coelho, Jose Carlos; Roxo, Alexandre - 2022

Performing a panel data analysis for OECD countries, during the period between 1990 and 2019, this article investigates the relationship between economic growth and income inequalities. The main objective is to understand how the GDP and GNI per capita affect income inequality and how they...

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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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The Distributional Impact of Labour Market Reforms : A Model-Based Assessment

Roeger, Werner - 2019

This paper studies the effects of labour market reforms on the functional distribution of income in a DSGE model (Roeger et al., 2008) with skill differentiation, in which households supply three types of labour: low-, medium- and high-skilled. The households receive income from labour, tangible...

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Trade Openness and Income Inequality : New Empirical Evidence

Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021

We examine how trade openness influences income inequality within countries. The sample includes 139 countries over the period 1970-2014. We employ predicted openness as instrument to deal with the endogeneity of trade openness. The effect of trade openness on income inequality differs across...

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COVID-19 and Income Inequality : Evidence from Monthly Population Registers

Angelov, Nikolay; Waldenström, Daniel - 2021

We measure the distributional impact of the COVID-19 pandemic using newly released population register data in Sweden. Monthly earnings inequality increased during the pandemic, and the key driver is income losses among low-paid individuals while middle- and high-income earners were almost...

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Your Place in the World - Relative Income and Global Inequality

Fehr, Dietmar; Mollerstrom, Johanna; Perez-Truglia, Ricardo - 2021

There is abundant evidence on individual preferences for policies that reduce national inequality, but only little evidence on preferences for policies addressing global inequality. To investigate the latter, we conduct a two-year, face-to-face survey experiment on a representative sample of...

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Economic Inequality and COVID-19 Death Rates in the First Wave, a Cross-Country Analysis

Davies, James B. - 2021

The cross-country relationship between Covid-19 crude mortality rates and previously measured income inequality and poverty in the pandemic’s first wave is studied, controlling for other underlying factors, in a sample of 141 countries. An older population, fewer hospital beds, lack of...

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The Social Cost of Carbon with Intragenerational Inequality Under Economic Uncertainty

van der Ploeg, Rick; Emmerling, Johannes; Groom, Ben - 2022

A formula is derived for the social cost of carbon (SCC) that takes account of intragenerational income inequality and its evolution with economic growth. The social discount rate (SDR) should be adjusted to account for intragenerational and intergenerational inequality aversion and for risk...

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