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Does income transparency affect support for redistribution? Evidence from Finland's tax day
Dunaiski, Maurice; Tukiainen, Janne - 2023
inequality through a real-world policy, rather than experimental treatments, may trigger only marginal changes in support for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014551561
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Does income transparency affect support for redistribution? : evidence from Finland's tax day
Dunaiski, Maurice; Tukiainen, Janne - 2023
inequality through a real-world policy, rather than experimental treatments, may trigger only marginal changes in support for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014229860
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Optimal taxation under different concepts of justness
Jessen, Robin; Metzing, Maria; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2017
A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfarist social welfare function with weights decreasing with income. However, high transfer withdrawal rates in many countries imply very low weights for the working poor in practice. We reconcile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011721431
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Sin taxes and self-control
Schmacker, Renke; Smed, Sinne - 2020
"Sin taxes" are high on the political agenda in the global fight against obesity. According to theory, they are welfare improving if consumers with low self-control are at least as price responsive as consumers with high self-control, even in the absence of externalities. In this paper, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012255846
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On the emissions-inequality trade-off in energy taxation : evidence on the German car fuel tax
Nikodinoska, Dragana; Schröder, Carsten - 2015
By using estimates from an Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS), we investigate how the German energy tax on car fuels changes the private households-CO2 emissions, living standards, and post-tax income distribution. Our results show that the tax implies a trade-off between the aim to reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483410
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Income tax noncompliance in Germany, 2001-2014
Fauser, Hannes; Godar, Sarah - 2021
This paper estimates income tax underreporting for the case of Germany, by income category and along the income distribution. Comparing weighted samples of survey and tax data, we find patterns that are in line with the literature: Average income from self-employment and from rent and lease in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012697780
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Intergenerational Mobility and Macroeconomic History Dependence
Mokherjee, Dilip; Napel, Stefan - 2006
That historical inequality can affect long run macroeconomic performance has been argued by a large literature on … endogenous inequality using models of indivisibilities in occupational choice, in the presence of borrowing constraints. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012502955
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European-wide inequality in times of the financial crisis
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2015
In view of rising concerns over increasing inequality in the European Union since the financial crisis, this study … provides an inequality decomposition of the overall European income distribution by country. The EU Statistics on Income and … Living Conditions are our empirical basis. Inequality has risen moderately within the core Euro area, particularly in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010517184
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The dynamics of earnings in Germany : evidence from social security records
Bönke, Timm; Giesecke, Matthias; Lüthen, Holger - 2015
This paper uncovers ongoing trends in idiosyncratic earnings volatility across generations by decomposing residual earnings auto-covariances into a permanent and a transitory component. We employ data on complete earnings life cycles for prime age men born 1935 through 1974 that covers earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316360
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Distributional consequences of asset price inflation in the euro area
Adam, Klaus; Tzamourani, Panagiota - 2015
correlate with household net wealth (or income). Bond price increases thus leave net wealth inequality largely unchanged. In … wealth inequality. Housing price increases display a hump shaped pattern over the net wealth distribution, with the poorest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316626