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The Political Economy of Redistributive Social Security
Pestieau, Pierre - 1999
Population aging puts significant pressure on social security systems that are based mainly on a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) formula and determined by the political process in which both retirees and future retirees participate. This paper demonstrates that in an economic and demographic steady state,...
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Tax Burden and Migration : A Political Economy Perspective
Sadka, Efraim - 1997
The extent of taxation and redistribution policy is generally determined at a political-economy equilibrium by a … tax burden and less redistribution than no migration, even though the migrants join the pro-tax coalition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403302
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Effectiveness and equity in social spending : the case of Spain
Vtyurina, Svetlana - 2020
recent targeted spending reviews. The results suggest that social protection spending should aim to improve redistribution …
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Pandemics and inequality : perceptions and preferences for redistribution
Balasundharam, Vybhavi; Dabla-Norris, Era - 2021
about the future, and attitudes about redistribution. We find that women, non-college educated, the unemployed, and those in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518743
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Inequality, poverty, and social protection in Bulgaria
Hallaert, Jean-Jacques - 2020
Absolute poverty has dropped markedly in Bulgaria but income inequality has increased substantially in the aftermath of … redistribution. The redistributive role of direct taxation has declined with the introduction of a flat tax and social spending is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012300609
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The Italian Social Protection System : The Poverty of Welfare
Rostagno, Massimo V. - 1998
under review accrues to families whose own resources fall short of the poverty line. The paper then proposes a new means …
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The state and your hard-earned money : a survey on moral perspectives in public finance
Mauro, Paolo - 2021
This note provides an overview of recent studies that have begun to investigate how differing moral perspectives shape attitudes toward tax and spending policies. Recent advances in evolutionary moral psychology and their application to survey-based economic analysis yield promising insights....
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Fiscal redistribution and social welfare
Coady, David P.; D'Angelo, Devin; Evans, Brooks - 2019
discussion of fiscal redistribution within the standard social welfare framework, which lends itself to a transparent and … practical evaluation of the extent and determinants of fiscal redistribution. Differences in fiscal redistribution are … determine the factors explaining differences in their fiscal redistribution and to discuss patterns in fiscal redistribution …
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Personal income tax progressivity : trends and implications
Gerber, Claudia; Klemm, Alexander; Liu, Li; Mylonas, Victor - 2018
This paper discusses how the structure of the tax system affects its progressivity. It suggests a measure of progressive capacity of tax systems, based on the Kakwani index, but independent of pre-tax income distributions. Using this and other progressivity measures, the paper (i) documents a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978377
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Inequality and Optimal Redistributive Tax and Transfer Policies
Zee, Howell H. - 1999
This paper explores the revenue-raising aspect of progressive taxation and derives, on the basis of a simple model, the optimal degree of tax progressivity where the tax revenue is used exclusively to finance (perfectly) targeted transfers to the poor. The paper shows that not only would it be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400295