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Wiegand, Martin - 2020

aim to reflect local perceptions of poverty. This paper demonstrates how such a measure can be constructed, using data … from a field experiment on poverty targeting in Indonesia. It then explores the potential impact of using this welfare … used as a meaningful basis for targeting and poverty measurement. …

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Income satisfaction inequality and its causes

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001

In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to an Income Satisfaction question posed in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Income satisfaction is the subjective analogue of the objective income concept and includes...

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Redistributive politics and the tyranny of the middle class

Zoutman, Floris T.; Jacobs, Bas; Jongen, Egbert L. W. - 2016

The Netherlands has a unique tradition in which all major Dutch political parties provide CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis with highly detailed proposals for the tax-benefit system in every national election. This information allows us to quantitatively measure the...

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Wealth distribution, peasant production and poverty traps in African smallholder agriculture

Hoogeveen, Johannes - 1999

technological non convexity exists. It follows that certain households are poverty trapped, that the initial distribution of wealth …

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Human capital and optimal positive taxation of capital income

Jacobs, Bas; Bovenberg, Ary Lans - 2005

This paper analyzes optimal linear taxes on capital and labor incomes in a life-cyclemodel of human capital investment, financial savings, and labor supply with heteroge-nous individuals. A dual income tax with a positive marginal tax rate on not onlylabor income but also capital income is...

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Does the wage tax system cause budget deficits?

Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2000

In this paper we investigate experimentally the functioning of a wage tax financed unemployment benefit system on the development of the budget deficit, unemployment, and some other indicators of economic performance in an international economy. We find support for the hypothesis that...

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An experimental investigation of wage taxation and unemployment in closed and open economies

Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2000

We investigate experimentally the economic effects of wage taxation to finance unemployment benefits for a closed economy and an international economy. The main findings are the following. (i) There is clear evidence of a vicious circle in the dynamic interaction between the wage tax and...

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Input versus output taxation in an experimental international economy

Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2003

This paper is concerned with a policy oriented macroeconomic experiment involving an 'international' economy with a relatively small 'home' country and a large 'foreign' country. It compares the economic performance of two alternative tax systems as a means to finance unemployment benefits: a...

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Input versus output taxation in an experimental international economy

Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2003

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Does the wage tax system cause budget deficits? : A macro-economic experiment

Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2000

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