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Richer or more Numerous or both? The Role of Population and Economic Growth for Top Income Shares
Krolage, Carla; Peichl, Andreas; Waldenström, Daniel - 2018
When measuring income inequality over long periods of time, accounting for population and productivity growth is … that the U-shaped inequality trend over the past century holds up, but with important qualifications. Using measures that …-term income inequality trends. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011957201
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Optimal Taxation of Robots
Thuemmel, Uwe - 2018
generates small welfare gains. As the price of robots falls, inequality rises but the robot tax and its welfare impact become …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932067
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Distributional Effects of Macroeconomic Shocks in Real-Time: A Novel Method Applied to the Covid-19 Crisis in Germany
Bruckmeier, Kerstin; Peichl, Andreas; Popp, Martin; … - 2020
The highly dynamic nature of the COVID-19 crisis poses an unprecedented challenge to policy makers around the world to take appropriate income-stabilizing countermeasures. To properly design such policy measures, it is important to quantify their effects in real-time. However, data on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425654
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Top Incomes, Rising Inequality, and Welfare
Lansing, Kevin J.; Markiewicz, Agnieszka - 2015
We introduce permanently-shifting income shares into a standard growth model with two types of agents. Capital owners represent the top quintile of U.S. households while workers represent the remainder. Our tractable model allows us to exactly replicate the observed U.S. time paths of the top...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388197
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Fiscal Federalism and Income Inequality: An Empirical Analysis for Switzerland
Feld, Lars P.; Frey, Christian; Schaltegger, Christoph A.; … - 2018
This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal federalism on income inequality and redistribution. Theoretically … consider the interdependence of decentralization and fragmentation as inequality decreasing effects of decentralization are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011957223
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The rich demystified: a reply to Bach, Corneo, and Steiner (2008)
Jacob, Martin; Niemann, Rainer; Weiss, Martin - 2008
The contribution Bach, Corneo, and Steiner (2008) has argued that the rich" do not pay taxes adequately in relation to their income, finding, for instance, an effective tax rate of only 38.1% for the 0.001% fractile of German income taxpayers in 2001. This result contrasts sharply with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264502
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Inequality and the Environment: The Economics of a Two-Headed Hydra
Drupp, Moritz A.; Kornek, Ulrike; Meya, Jasper N.; … - 2021
Preserving environmental quality and addressing economic inequality both feature prominently in public discourse … consider interactions with the other. We synthesize theoretical mechanisms that underpin inequality-environment interlinkages … distribution of environmental amenities and dis-amenities is associated with income and wealth, second, how economic inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799747
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Inequality and the Environment : The Economics of a Two-Headed Hydra
Drupp, Moritz A.; Kornek, Ulrike; Meya, Jasper; Sager, Lutz - 2021
Preserving environmental quality and addressing economic inequality both feature prominently in public discourse … consider interactions with the other. We synthesize theoretical mechanisms that underpin inequality-environment interlinkages … distribution of environmental amenities and dis-amenities is associated with income and wealth, second, how economic inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013312074
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Optimal Taxation of Robots
Thuemmel, Uwe - 2019
generates small welfare gains. As the price of robots falls, inequality rises but the robot tax and its welfare impact become …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892266
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Inequality Measurement and Tax/Transfer Policy
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2020
We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle in-come...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269448