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Accounting for Family Background When Designing Optimal Income Taxes : A Microeconometric Simulation Analysis
Aaberge, Rolf - 2009
The purpose of this paper is to introduce and adopt a generalised version of Roemer's (1998) Equality of Opportunity (EOp) framework, which we call extended EOp, for analysing second-best optimal income taxation. Unlike the pure EOp criterion of Roemer (1998) the extended EOp criterion allows...
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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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The Impact of Home Production on Economic Inequality in Germany
Frick, Joachim R. - 2009
Using representative income and time use-data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we estimate non-monetary income advantages arising from home production and analyse their impact on economic inequality. As an alternative to existing measures, we propose a predicted wage approach based...
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Economic Gains from Publicly Provided Education in Germany
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2021
The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided education and to analyse their impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and education-specific variation, from a cross-sectional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316929
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Designing Optimal Taxes with a Microeconometric Model of Household Labour Supply
Aaberge, Rolf - 2006
The purpose of this paper is to present an exercise where we identify optimal income tax rules under the constraint of fixed tax revenue. To this end, we estimate a microeconomic model with 78 parameters that capture heterogeneity in consumption-leisure preferences for singles and couples as...
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Optimal Tax-Transfer Rules Under Equilibrium and New Labour Demand Scenarios
Colombino, Ugo - 2020
We present an extension of the numerical approach to empirical optimal taxation allowed by a peculiar structure of a microeconometric model of labour supply that includes a representation of the demand side. This makes it possible to identify optimal tax-transfer rules while accounting for...
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Five Crossroads on the Way to Basic Income : An Italian Tour
Colombino, Ugo - 2014
wage subsidy, with a total benefit amounting to about 70% of the poverty level, or – depending on the social welfare … criterion – a pure unconditional transfer amounting to 100% of the poverty level …
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Structural Labour Supply Models and Microsimulation
Aaberge, Rolf - 2018
The purpose of the paper is to provide a discussion of the various approaches for accounting for labour supply responses in microsimulation models. The paper focuses attention on two methodologies for modelling labour supply: the discrete choice model and the random utility – random...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917091
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Combining Microsimulation and Optimization to Identify Optimal Flexible Tax-Transfer Rules
Colombino, Ugo - 2020
welfare gains are due to efficiency gains. Nonetheless, the poverty gap index tends to be lower under the optimized regime …
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