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The global consumption and income project (GCIP) : an overview

Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2016 - (revised in April 2016)

the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …

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The Global Consumption and Income Project (GCIP) : an introduction and preliminary findings

Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2014 - This Version: October 30th, 2014

consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …

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How do regional price levels affect income inequality? : household-level evidence from 21 countries

Janský, Petr; Šedivý, Marek - 2018

are for income inequality and relative poverty. To bridge this gap, we provide new evidence on the basis of the best … countries. We find that for some countries Gini coefficients and headcount poverty ratios are statistically significantly … Gini coefficients by 2% for Italy, 3% for Columbia and by 4% for Georgia, while it would increase the headcount poverty …

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The taxing deed of globalization

Egger, Peter; Nigai, Sergey; Strecker, Nora Margot - 2016 - This draft: April 2016

We examine the effects of globalization on the size and composition of tax revenues, worker-specific tax burdens, and effective average labor income tax rates using a unique international database on income tax calculators. We find that due to increasing mobility of firms and high-income...

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Effective Labor Taxation and the International Location of Headquarters

Egger, Peter H. - 2012

Profit taxes are widely acknowledged to influence the location of firms' headquarters. This paper sheds light on the role of aspects of labor taxation for the international location of headquarters. While profit taxes can be avoided in various ways, it is much harder for firms to manipulate the...

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Is human development multidimensional?

French, Declan; Moore, Michael J.; Canning, David - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 25 (2013) 4, pp. 445-455

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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth

Sacks, Daniel W. - 2011

We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...

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The Globalization Paradox Revisited

Schwerhoff, Gregor - 2014

According to the Globalization Paradox, globalization limits the freedom of choice for national governments. Capital mobility in particular induces tax competition, thus putting downward pressure on capital taxes. However, while capital mobility introduces the inefficiency of tax competition, it...

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Robustness of a Simple Rule for the Social Cost of Carbon

Rezai, Armon - 2015

The optimal social cost of carbon is in general equilibrium proportional to GDP if utility is logarithmic, production is Cobb-Douglas, depreciation in 100% every period, climate damages as fraction of production decline exponentially with the stock of atmospheric carbon, and fossil fuel...

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Stranded Assets, the Social Cost of Carbon, and Directed Technical Change : Macroeconomic Dynamics of Optimal Climate Policy

van der Ploeg, Rick - 2016

The tractable general equilibrium model developed by Golosov et al. (2014), GHKT for short, is modified to allow for stock-dependent fossil fuel extraction costs and partial exhaustion of fossil fuel reserves, a negative impact of global warming on growth, mean reversion in climate damages,...

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