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Based on the earlier work of one of the authors, this paper develops a unified methodology to compare tax progression for dominance relations under different income distributions. We address it as uniform tax progression for different income distributions and present the respective approach for...
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overcome that trade-off. The rise in inequality is widely interpreted with regard to globalization and technological change … the skewness of income distributions: In the globalization model, increasing inequality is accompanied first by a fall and …. -- Inequality ; globalization ; diffusion ; welfare states ; distribution skewness ; statistical methods ; cross-national comparison …
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In the context of economic and financial difficulties, the debate over the effect of income taxation and redistribution has come back in most of the European countries. In this paper, we use the LIS data to examine the impact of income redistribution on middle class households from a...
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We use social welfare functions that assign weights to individuals based on their income levels to document the relative importance of growth and inequality changes for changes in social welfare. In a large panel of industrial and developing countries over the past 40 years, we find that most of...
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