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Delestre, Isaac; Kopczuk, Wojciech; Miller, Helen; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The share of pre-tax income flowing to the top of the UK income distribution increased continually and substantially in the three decades leading up to the financial crisis, but has changed little since 2013. Using microdata sampled from UK tax records, we describe the nature of top incomes in...

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The Optimal Income Taxation of Couples

Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen - 2006

This paper analyzes the optimal income tax treatment of couples. Each couple is modelled as a single rational economic agent supplying labor along two dimensions: primary and secondary earnings. We consider fully general joint income tax systems. Separate taxation is never optimal if social...

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Winners and Losers of Tax Competition in the European Union

Mendoza, Enrique G. - 2003

This paper quantifies the macroeconomic effects of capital income tax competition in the European Union using a two-country neoclassical dynamic general equilibrium model. This model incorporates three key externalities of tax competition: the relative price externality, the wealth distribution...

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The Impact of Separate Taxation on the Intra-Household Allocation of Assets : Evidence from the UK

Stephens, Melvin, Jr - 2001

The income tax system in the United Kingdom moved from joint to independent taxation of husbands' and wives' income in 1990. One interesting aspect of independent taxation is the ability for households to choose the division of household assets between the two spouses. This tax reform therefore...

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Finance, inequality, and poverty : cross-country evidence

Beck, Thorsten - 2004

development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we … and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse …

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Converging to Convergence

Kremer, Michael; Willis, Jack; You, Yang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

, including AK models, poverty trap models, and the concept of convergence conditional on determinants of steady-state income. We …

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Supplemental Social Insurance and the Health of the Poor

Taubman, Paul J. - 1983

In 1974 the federal government instituted Supplemental Social Insurance(SSI). The eligible group was the elderly on welfare and disabled individuals.The program distributed extra income and made people eligible for Medicaid in all states except Arizona which did not have Medicaid. We used...

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Vanishing Third World Emigrants?

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2009

, the poverty trap, the size of the cohort at risk, and migrant stock dynamics. It then projects the life cycle up to 2024 …

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Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2007

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...

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Aid Volatility and Poverty Traps

Agénor, Pierre-Richard - 2007

modern technology to be used. The possibility of a poverty trap induced by high aid volatility is first examined in a …

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