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system and go further to demonstrate how the different taxes and benefits contribute to the total redistribution effect. A … inequality and high redistributive effect for some specific figures of transfers. The contribution from Vertical Equity (VE) is …
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incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of mobility by assuming both a social aversion to inequality in permanent … and on the inequality of income across individuals. Using panel data, we find that Canada’s tax system limits … income equalizing effect of taxes can reach up to 23 percent of mean income at the higher values of inequality aversion that …
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incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of mobility by assuming both an aversion to inequality in permanent … inequality of income across individuals. Using panel data, we find that Canada’s tax system limits significantly the … effect of taxes can reach up to 23 percent of mean income at the higher values of inequality aversion that we use. Globally …
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measurement of inequality and social welfare. In particular, we show that the more progressive a tax system, the more equal the … system, the greater the degree of relative inequality aversion, the greater the progressivity index. We also discuss the link … between inequality of gross income and tax progressivity. A by-product is the derivation of a general class of inequality …
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interaction of the mechanisms of income taxation and redistribution. Moreover, we evaluate the distribution of EMTRs in the …
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redistribution. En outre, nous en évaluons la répartition au sein de la population. L'analyse de ces taux démontre, entre autres, que …
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We consider the implications of ethical behaviour on the effect of a redistributive tax-transfer system. In choosing their labour supplies, individuals take into account whether their tax liabilities correspond to what they view as ethically acceptable. If tax liabilities are viewed as ethically...
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The paper simulates the redistributive impact of three possible scenarios for the introduction of a basic income (BI, also sometimes called "citizens' income") in Québec. The simulations are revenue neutral at the joint provincial-federal government level. The first scenario assumes that a set...
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Is horizontal equity (HE) the "most widely accepted principle of equity"? Or does it stand in "opposition to the advancement of human welfare"? This paper argues that the case for the HE principle is not as straightforward as is usually thought and that it requires advanced notions of justice...
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transfers into a vertical equity effect and a loss of redistribution due to either classical HI or reranking. An inequality … ethically flexible tools that integrate these two strands. This is achieved using a measure of inequality that merges the well …-change approach and a money-metric cost-of-inequality approach are developed. The latter approach makes aggregate classical HI …
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