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Distributional effects of macroeconomic policy choices in emerging market economies
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2013
Distributional consequences typically receive limited attention in economic models that analyze the effects of monetary and financial sector policies. These consequences deserve more attention since financial markets are incomplete, imperfect, and economic agents' access to them is often...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010222156
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Heterogeneity and government revenues : higher taxes at the top?
Guner, Nezih; Lopez-Daneri, Martin; Ventura, Gustavo - 2014
We evaluate the effectiveness of a more progressive tax scheme in raising government revenues. We develop a life-cycle economy with heterogeneity and endogenous labor supply. Households face a progressive income tax schedule, mimicking the Federal Income tax, and flat-rate taxes that capture...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010386338
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Redistributive effect and the progressivity of taxes and benefits: evidence for the UK, 1977-2018
Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2021
We apply the Kakwani approach to decomposing redistributive effect into average rate, progressivity, and reranking … effects of direct and indirect taxes are mostly associated with changes in progressivity. For in-kind benefits, changes in the … average benefit rate and progressivity each played the major roles at different times. …
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The distributional impact of recurrent immovable property taxation in Greece
Andriopoulou, Eirini; Kanavitsa, Eleni; Leventi, Chrysa; … - 2020
examines in detail their distributional impact and finds that they led to increases in inequality and (relative) poverty. The … result is stronger in the case of inequality indices that are relatively more sensitive to changes close to the bottom of the …
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Optimal spatial taxation : are big cities too small?
Eeckhout, Jan; Guner, Nezih - 2015
We analyze the role of optimal income taxation across different local labor markets. Should labor in large cities be taxed differently than in small cities? We find that a planner who needs to raise revenue and is constrained by free mobility of labor across cities does not choose equal taxes...
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The changing structure of immigration to the OECD : what welfare effects on member countries?
Burzyński, Michał; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2018
We investigate the welfare implications of two pre-crisis immigration waves (1991-2000 and 2001-2010) and of the post-crisis wave (2011-2015) for OECD native citizens. To do so, we develop a general equilibrium model that accounts for the main channels of transmission of immigration shocks - the...
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Shifting taxes from labor to consumption : efficient, but regressive?
Pestel, Nico; Sommer, Eric - 2013
on inequality and progressivity become substantially lower when payroll taxes are reduced, which is due to increased work …
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Optimal taxation, inequality and top incomes
Andrienko, Jurij; Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2014
In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and … an appropriate response to rising inequality is a shift towards a more progressive multi-bracket income tax system, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010374096
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Higher tax and less work : an optimal response to relative income concern
FitzRoy, Felix R.; Jin, Jim Y.; Nolan, Michael A. - 2019
with the Joneses" (KUJ), while increasing use of social media and growing inequality encourage comparison. Models with one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012034986
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A different perspective on the evolution of UK income inequality
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Jenkins, Stephen - 2018
processes: reordering of the socio-economic position of urban neighbourhoods; changing levels of inequality between …
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