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Migration Elasticities, Fiscal Federalism and the Ability of States to Redistribute Income

Giertz, Seth H. - 2012

This paper develops a simulation model in order to examine the effectiveness of state attempts at redistribution under …-level redistribution are substantial, but state action may still be preferred to a federal policy that is at odds with preferences of a … state pursuing additional redistribution, but not a cost at the national level …

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Behavioral Responses to Taxation : Cigarette Taxes and Food Stamp Take-Up

Rozema, Kyle - 2015

This paper investigates a previously unexplored behavioral response to taxation: whether smokers compensate for higher cigarette taxes by enrolling in food stamps. First, we show theoretically that increases in cigarette taxes can induce food stamp take-up of non-enrolled, eligible smoking...

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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 …

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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...

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The Value of Redistribution : Natural Resources and the Formation of Human Capital Under Weak Institutions

Agüero, Jorge - 2017

students and district-level administrative data on mining production and the redistribution of mining taxes to local … governments, we find no effect from production. However, redistribution of mining taxes increases math test scores by 0 … increases in adult employment and health outcomes of adults and children, as key mechanisms from the redistribution. Policy …

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The Impact of Brazil's Tax-Benefit System on Inequality and Poverty

Immervoll, Herwig; Levy, Horacio; Nogueira, José Ricardo; … - 2006

The Brazilian government raises taxes amounting to 35% of GDP and spends more than two thirds of this on social programmes. These shares are in pair with the OECD averages and well in excess of Latin America averages. However, while tax-benefit systems in most OECD countries reduce income...

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Other-Regarding Preferences and Redistributive Politics

Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2022

Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the … national plebiscites, to study the link between other-regarding preferences and support for redistribution in a broad sample of …

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Employment Dynamics and Redistributive Policies Under Workers' Social Norms

Ferreira, Rodolphe dos Santos - 2014

We study employment dynamics using an OLG model with unemployment benefits and universal old-age survival pensions, both financed by taxing employed workers. The novelty is that we explicitly introduce workers' social norms that shape both the individual participation decision of workers and...

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Back to the Future : Decomposition Analysis of Distributive Policies Using Behavioural Simulations

Bargain, Olivier - 2010

For policy makers and analysts, it is important to isolate the redistributive impact of tax-benefit policy changes from changes in the environment in which policies operate. When actual reforms are motivated by work incentives, it is also crucial to evaluate behavioural responses and the...

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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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