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Happy Taxpayers? Income Taxation and Well-Being

Akay, Alpaslan - 2012

This paper offers a first empirical investigation of how labor taxation (income and payroll taxes) affects individuals' well-being. For identification, we exploit exogenous variation in tax rules over time and across demographic groups using 26 years of German panel data. We find that the tax...

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Tax-Benefit Systems in Europe and the US : Between Equity and Efficiency

Bargain, Olivier - 2011

Whether observed differences in redistributive policies across countries are the result of differences in social preferences or efficiency constraints is an important question that paves the debate about the optimality of welfare regimes. To shed new light on this question, we estimate labor...

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Tax-Benefit Revealed Redistributive Preferences Over Time : Ireland 1987-2005

Bargain, Olivier - 2010

By inverting Saez (2002)'s model of optimal income taxation, we characterize the redistributive preferences of the Irish government between 1987 and 2005. The (marginal) social welfare function revealed by this approach is consistently comparable over time and show great stability despite...

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Comparing Inequality Aversion Across Countries When Labor Supply Responses Differ

Bargain, Olivier - 2013

We analyze to which extent social inequality aversion differs across nations when controlling for actual country differences in labor supply responses. Towards this aim, we estimate labor supply elasticities at both extensive and intensive margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same...

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A Theory of Child Targeting

Bargain, Olivier - 2007

more cost effective than cash transfers in alleviating child poverty …

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Optimal Commodity Taxation and Redistribution within Households

Bargain, Olivier - 2011

Using a collective model of consumption, we characterize optimal commodity taxes aimed at targeting specific individuals within the household. The main message is that distortionary indirect taxation can circumvent the agency problem of the household. Essentially, taxation should discourage less...

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Analysing the Effects of Tax-Benefit Reforms onIncome Distribution: A Decomposition Approach

Bargain, Olivier; Callan, Tim - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposingchanges in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the tax …

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Analysing the Effects of Tax-Benefit Reforms on Income Distribution : A Decomposition Approach

Bargain, Olivier - 2007

counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposing changes in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775691

Estimating Poverty for Refugee Populations : Can Cross-Survey Imputation Methods Substitute for Data Scarcity?

Dang, Hai-Anh - 2019

measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, particularly in relation to the measurement of … income, consumption, or expenditure. This paper offers a first attempt to measure poverty among refugees using cross … system, the proposed methodology offers out-of-sample predicted poverty rates.These estimates are not statistically different …

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Estimating Poverty Among Refugee Populations : A Cross-Survey Imputation Exercise for Chad

Beltramo, Theresa; Dang, Hai-Anh; Sarr, Ibrahima; … - 2021

Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of a recently developed cross-survey imputation method to estimate poverty for a sample of … proposed method offers poverty estimates based on administrative data that are mostly statistically insignificantly different …

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