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Relative Income, Redistribution and Well-Being
Fitzroy, Felix R. - 2010
of redistribution: a universal basic income, and a categorical unemployment benefit. Well-being depends on own …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136943
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Unequal Inequalities : Do Progressive Taxes Reduce Income Inequality?
Duncan, Denvil - 2012
This paper analyzes the effect of changes in structural progressivity of national income tax systems on observed and actual income inequality. Using several unique measures of progressivity over the 1981-2005 period for a large panel of countries, we find that progressivity reduces inequality in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099109
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Income Inequality and the Size of Government : A Causal Analysis
Guzi, Martin - 2019
Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from the problem of endogeneity of government size with respect to the distribution of income. Studying 30 European countries over the period 2004-2015, we apply instrumental variable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894558
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Insurance, Redistribution, and the Inequality of Lifetime Income
Haan, Peter - 2018
lifetime earnings risk. Based on a dynamic life-cycle model, we find that redistribution through the tax-and -transfer system …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929083
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Should the Rich Be Taxed More? The Fiscal Inequality Coefficient
Hatgioannides, John - 2017
This paper holistically addresses the effective (relative) income tax contribution of a given in-come (or, wealth) group. The widely acclaimed standard in public policy is the absolute benefaction of a given income group in filling up the fiscal coffers. Instead, we focus on the ratio of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948621
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Structural Transformation and Income Distribution : Kuznets and Beyond
Kanbur, Ravi - 2017
This paper explores the question of structural transformation and income distribution through the eyes of the pioneer in such analysis, Simon Kuznets. It argues that his 1955 paper stands the test of time in providing insights which are relevant to understanding current phenomena like the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960255
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Structural Reforms, Growth and Inequality : an Overview of Theory, Measurement and Evidence
Campos, Nauro F. - 2017
This chapter provides a critical overview of the state of the art in the economics literature on structural reforms. It takes stock of theoretical developments, measurement efforts and of the econometric evidence. We start with a simple theoretical framework for the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942092
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Inequality and Growth : The Role of Human Capital with Heterogeneous Skills
Borissov, Kirill - 2016
aggregate constraint, redistributing. We find that heterogeneity matters, particularly with redistribution. In the meritocracy …, in the redistribution case, the solution for time devoted to capital accumulation is never interior for both agents … welfare under the redistribution regime is always higher than under meritocracy and it is optimal to exploit existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985671
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The Inequality-Growth Plateau
Henderson, Daniel J. - 2015
We examine the (potentially nonlinear) relationship between inequality and growth using a method which does not require an a priori assumption on the underlying functional form. This approach reveals a plateau completely missed by commonly used (nonlinear) parametric approaches - the economy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029626
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Inequality Perceptions, Distributional Norms, and Redistributive Preferences in East and West Germany
Kuhn, Andreas - 2011
redistribution and progressive taxation, and less likely to have a conservative political orientation, even conditional on having the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128215