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Almeida, Vanda - In: National tax journal 73 (2020) 1, pp. 77-114

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Crime, inequality and subsidized housing : evidence from South Africa

Manea, Roxana; Patrizio, Piraino; Viarengo, Martina - 2021

We study the relationship between housing inequality and crime in South Africa. We create a novel panel dataset …. An increase of one standard deviation in housing inequality explains between 9 and 13 percent of crime increases … conditions can play in the reduction of crime in an emerging economy context. …

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Lifetime versus annual tax progressivity : Sweden, 1968-2009

Bengtsson, Niklas; Holmlund, Bertil; Waldenström, Daniel - 2012

This paper analyzes the evolution of tax progressivity in Sweden from both annual and lifetime perspectives. Using a rich micro panel with administrative records of incomes, taxes and benefits over the period 1968–2009, we calculate tax rates across the income distribution accounting for...

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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...

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The efficiency and equity of the tax and transfer system in France

Égert, Balázs - 2013

Taxes and cash transfers reduce income inequality more in France than elsewhere in the OECD, because of the large size …-market performance would result from increasing job-search incentives and shortening the parental leave allowance. -- taxation ; cash …

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To what extent are public pensions Pareto-improving? : on the interaction of means tested basic income and public pensions

Fenge, Robert; Weizsäcker, Jakob von - 1999

If there is a means tested basic income for old age, households will tend to reduce precautionary savings to an inefficiently low level. This might serve as a justification for a public pension system. In a representative agent framework, indeed, the introduction of a compulsory pension s ystem...

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The lifecycle of the 47 percent

Fullerton, Don; Rao, Nirupama L. - In: National tax journal 72 (2019) 2, pp. 359-396

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Equity and efficiency when needs differ

Berg, Kristoffer; Håvarstein, Morten; Piacquadio, Paolo G. - 2024

There is no consensus on how to measure social welfare and inequality when households have different needs. As we show, a dilemma emerges between holding households responsible for their needs or compensating them. This dilemma is of first-order importance for social welfare, but generally plays...

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Health, income, and measures of inequality : why inequality may decline when all inequality measures indicate the opposite

Brekke, Kjell Arne; Kverndokk, Snorre - 2024

We study how measures of socioeconomic health inequality inform about welfare inequality. We argue that transfers of either income or health from a better off to a worse off individual should reduce welfare inequality. Lacking an objective measure of individual welfare, we suggest that such a...

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Income mobility in the United States: new evidence from income tax data

Auten, Gerald E.; Gee, Geoffrey - In: National tax journal 62 (2009) 2, pp. 301-328

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