Showing 1 - 7 of 7
result in income or health gains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068296
This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759650
and agriculture), and an increase in profit. But this increase in profit was offset by a reduction in income from casual … labor, so overall there was no gain in measured income or consumption. We find suggestive evidence that these results are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052669
The relative income gains of the affluent after the passage of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 (TRA86), which sharply … lowered tax rates at high income levels, are overstated by comparing cross-sectional slices using concurrent income … income distribution can explain much of the increased high-income concentration until 1985, it cannot adequately explain the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235287
deducted in the computation of one's income tax base in spite of the fact that the returns from owner- occupied housing = not … the household and the method of finance. Average 1977 tax rates for households in different income ranges are calculated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013308370
amount of revenue actually collected from taxing capital income is apparently very low. In this paper we derive explicitly … of the true effective tax rate on capital income, and how this measure and existing measures are affected by several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218702
Two well-noted phenomena of recent decades are the increasing concentration of personal income and the declining rate … these two trends have a common explanation-shifting of income to the personal tax base from the corporate tax base caused by … the generally declining difference between personal tax rates and corporation income tax rates. This paper presents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222906