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Lifetime versus annual tax progressivity: Sweden, 1968-2009
Bengtsson, Niklas; Holmlund, Bertil; Waldenström, Daniel - 2012
This paper analyzes the evolution of tax progressivity in Sweden from both annual and lifetime perspectives. Using a rich micro panel with administrative records of incomes, taxes and benefits over the period 1968 - 2009, we calculate tax rates across the income distribution accounting for...
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The Effect of Moving to a Territorial Tax System on Profit Repatriation : Evidence from Japan
Hasegawa, Makoto - 2017
In an increasingly globalized world, the design of international tax systems in terms of the taxation of foreign corporate income has attracted much attention from policy makers and economists alike. In the past, Japan's worldwide tax system taxed foreign source income upon repatriation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971608
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Tackling social exclusion: Evidence from Chile
Carneiro, Pedro; Galasso, Emanuela; Ginja, Rita - 2014
We study an innovative welfare program in Chile which combines a period of frequent home visits to households in extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity design, exploring the fact that program eligibility is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396722
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The marginal propensity to earn, consume and save out of unearned income in South Africa
Bengtsson, Niklas - 2010
We use a rapid introduction of an unconditional cash grant (child support) in South Africa to estimate the marginal propensity to consume and earn out of a permanent change in unearned income. We find that the marginal propensity to earn is about to -0.25 for single-adult households, and...
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Preferences for redistribution and perception of fairness: An experimental study
Durante, Ruben; Putterman, Louis; van der Weele, Joël - 2013
We conduct a laboratory experiment to study how demand for redistribution of income depends on self-interest, insurance … is affected by redistribution. We estimate utility weights for the different sources of demand for redistribution, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420263
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Inter-ethnic redistribution and human investments
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2009
This article analyzes income redistribution in the inter-ethnic context. The model shows that redistribution in favor … demonstrates that income redistribution, although financed by taxes levied on the skilled, generates a mechanism that, via its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336073
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Inequality, democracy, institutional quality, and fiscal redistribution
Chong, Alberto; Gradstein, Mark - 2007
redistribution and lowers institutional quality. The effect of the former is to increase productive investment, and the effect of the … redistribution, especially in non-democratic countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278272
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Why does the amount of income redistribution differ between United States and Europe? The Janus face of Switzerland
Akkoyunlu, Sule; Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2009
In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is … balance against the economic explanation, which predicts more rather than less income redistribution in the United States … (which also characterize Switzerland) to redistribution; yet the Swiss share of transfers in the GDP is low. Behavioral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315581
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The Poverty-growth-inequality triangle
Bourguignon, François - 2004
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Income distribution, technical change and the dynamics of international economic integration
Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - 2005
This paper explores the features of a dynamic multisectoral model which focuses on the relationship between income distribution, growth and international specialization. The model is explored both for the steady-state properties and the transitory dynamics of integrated economies. Income...
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