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Changes in income distributions and the role of tax-benefit policy during the Great Recession : an international perspective
Bargain, Olivier; Callan, Tim; Doorley, Karina; Keane, … - 2013
This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … decreasing inequality and relative poverty in the UK, France and especially in Ireland, a country where rising unemployment would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212995
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Should the rich be taxed more? : the fiscal inequality coefficient
Hatgioannides, John; Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2017
national income (or wealth) appropriated by the same income group. In turn, we develop the Fiscal Inequality Coefficient which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731886
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Learning from the "best" : the impact of tax-benefit systems in Africa
Bargain, Olivier; Jara, H. Xavier; Kwenda-Magejo, Prudence - 2018
learn from each other to improve social protection and reduce inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955580
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Gender bias in tax systems based on household income
Andrienko, Jurij; Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2014
The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living provides the basis for the joint taxation of families, which has the effect of discriminating against married women as second earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010441692
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Fiscal policy, interest rate spreads, and the zero lower bound
Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko; Schabert, Andreas - 2015
This paper questions unconventional fiscal policy effects when the monetary policy rate is at the zero lower bound. We provide evidence for the US that the spread between the policy rate and the US-LIBOR, which is more relevant for private sector transactions, increases with government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510610
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Deriving the new quantity equation : an approach for a closed and an open economy
Welfens, Paul J. J. - 2014
This theoretical contribution shows a simple way in which the quantity equation can be derived as a long-term equilibrium solution for the case of a closed economy and an open economy, respectively. It is shown first for the case of a closed economy which parameters stand behind "velocity" and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398774
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The impact of opportunity zones on commercial investment and economic activity
Corinth, Kevin; Feldman, Naomi - 2022
A provision of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 offered tax incentives for investing in certain low-income areas in the United States called Opportunity Zones (OZs). The goal of this provision was to spur private investment in OZs in order to improve the economic well-being of their residents....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013187185
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Re-exploring the early relationship between teenage cigarette and e-cigarette use using price and tax changes
Pesko, Michael F.; Warman, Casey - 2021
In 2016, the Surgeon General used longitudinal cohort studies to conclude that youth e-cigarette use is strongly associated with cigarette use. We re-evaluate data from the period of time before the writing of the Surgeon General report, using quasi-experimental methods, and reach the opposite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012647899
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The Child Tax Credit over time by family type : benefit eligibility and poverty
Brehm, Margaret E.; Malkova, Olga - 2023
We examine disparities in Child Tax Credit (CTC) eligibility and anti-poverty effects since 1998 by family type. Initially, single mothers were least likely to be eligible and were underrepresented among those lifted from poverty by the CTC, because the credit was virtually nonrefundable. By...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278606
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Mobility, taxation and welfare
Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Araar, Abdelkrim - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009308021