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Tax progression : international and intertemporal comparisons using LIS data

Pogorelskiy, Kirill; Seidl, Christian; Traub, Stefan - 2010

Based on the earlier work of one of the authors, this paper develops a unified methodology to compare tax progression for dominance relations under different income distributions. We address it as uniform tax progression for different income distributions and present the respective approach for...

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Determinanten regionaler Unterschiede in der Gründungshäufigkeit wissensintensiver Dienstleister

Almus, Matthias; Egeln, Jürgen; Engel, Dirk - 1999

Dem Neugründungsgeschehen in Dienstleistungsbranchen wird oft zugeschrieben, dass es einen wesentlichen Beitrag zum Strukturwandel zu einer wissensorientierten Wirtschaft leistet. Die hier vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die regionstypenspezifischen Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten im...

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Does inequality rise from above or from below? : Understanding income skewness trends in 16 OECD countries ; 1985 - 2005

Scholtz, Hanno - 2008

overcome that trade-off. The rise in inequality is widely interpreted with regard to globalization and technological change … the skewness of income distributions: In the globalization model, increasing inequality is accompanied first by a fall and …. -- Inequality ; globalization ; diffusion ; welfare states ; distribution skewness ; statistical methods ; cross-national comparison …

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The Effective Tax Burden of Companies and on Highly Skilled Manpower: Tax Policy Strategies in a Globalized Economy

Elschner, Christina; Lammersen, Lothar; Overesch, Michael; … - 2005

Company taxes and taxes on highly skilled labour both influence the attractiveness of a particular region as a location for investment. We measure the effective tax burden on capital investment and on highly qualified labour in 33 locations across Europe and the United States. We then correlate...

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Poor people in rich nations : the United States in comparative perspective

Smeeding, Timothy M. (contributor) - 2005

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Impact of income redistribution on middle class households : a cross-country comparison based on the LIS data

Bigot, Régis; Daudey, Emilie; Muller, Jörg; Osier, … - 2014

In the context of economic and financial difficulties, the debate over the effect of income taxation and redistribution has come back in most of the European countries. In this paper, we use the LIS data to examine the impact of income redistribution on middle class households from a...

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Growth, inequality, and social welfare : cross-country evidence

Dollar, David; Kleineberg, Tatjana; Kraay, Aart - 2014

We use social welfare functions that assign weights to individuals based on their income levels to document the relative importance of growth and inequality changes for changes in social welfare. In a large panel of industrial and developing countries over the past 40 years, we find that most of...

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Public policy and economic inequality : the United States in comparative perspective

Smeeding, Timothy M. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Assessing the social welfare effects of government transfer programs : some international comparisons

Kakwani, Nanak; Wang, Xiaobing; Xu, Jing; Yue, Ximing - 2020

This paper offers a new way of assessing government cash transfers using a social welfare function framework. It demonstrates how one can use social welfare functions to measure the efficiency of such program s without requir ing the specif ication of a poverty line or particular poverty...

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Children, poverty, and public policy : a cross-national perspective

Gornick, Janet C.; Nell, Emily - 2017

This paper assesses child poverty in 24 high- and middle-income countries, using data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Database. We assess poverty patterns using both relative and absolute poverty standards, to account for variation in income levels both within and across countries. We...

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