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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...

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Inequality, Transfers and Growth : New Evidence From the Economic Transition in Poland

Prasad, Eswar - 2000

recent literature suggesting that inequality-reducing redistribution can enhance growth …

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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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Lucas vs. Lucas : On Inequality and Growth

Cordoba, Juan Carlos - 2007

Lucas (2004) asserts that ""Of the tendencies that are harmful to sound economics, the most seductive, and in my opinion the most poisonous, is to focus on questions of distribution. The potential for improving the lives of poor people by finding different ways of distributing current production...

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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...

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Income Inequality and Redistributive Government Spending

International Monetary Fund - 2003

The paper examines empirically the question of whether more unequal societies spend more on income redistribution than … argued that unequal societies may spend less on redistribution because of capital market imperfections. Based on different … redistribution …

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On the Measurement of Horizontal Inequity

Lambert, Peter J. - 1995

This paper makes a new attack on the old problem of measuring horizontal inequity in the income tax. Local measures of inequality of posttax income among pretax equals are proposed, which reflect alternative value judgments about the nature and magnitude of an inequity. These measures are...

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Designing fiscal redistribution : the role of universal and targeted transfers

Coady, David; Le, Nghia-Piotr - 2020

income redistribution objectives. While the benefits of targeting are clear, id est, a larger poverty impact for a given … therefore depend on how countries decide to trade-off these costs and benefits as well as on the potential for redistribution … strengthening fiscal redistribution in advanced and developing countries, including through expanding transfer coverage and …

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Measuring the redistributive capacity of tax policies

Vellutini, Charles; Benítez, Juan Carlos - 2021

This paper presents a novel technique to measure and compare the redistributive capacity of observed tax (or transfer) policies. The technique is based on income distribution simulations and controls for differences in pre-tax income distributions. It assumes that the only information on the...

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Income inequality in small states and the Caribbean : stylized facts and determinants

McIntyre, Meredith A.; Bejar, Pablo; Komatsuzaki, Takuji; … - 2021

indicators will support increased redistribution and reduce income inequality …

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