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In this paper we use administrative data from the social security to study income dynamics and income risk inequality … in Spain between 2005 and 2018. We construct individual measures of income risk as functions of past employment history …, income, and demographics. Focusing on males, we document that income risk is highly unequal in Spain: more than half of the …
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Study of Income Dynamics) data. We study the implications of two processes for household, post-tax earnings in a standard …
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This working paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries …
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We study earnings and income inequality in Britain over the 25 years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus on the … middle 90% of the income distribution, within which the gap between top and bottom in 2019-20 was essentially the same as a … for most of the period, reducing inequalities in household labour income across the working-age population. Between the …
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This paper uses standard fiscal incidence analysis to study how much income redistribution and poverty reduction are … heterogeneity in the income inequality and poverty-reducing power of LAC fiscal systems. While all LAC fiscal systems reduce income …
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This chapter analyzes the incidence on income distribution by a comprehensive array of direct and indirect taxes in ten … in the tax structures, and of low personal income tax collection and coverage. The inclusion of the redistributive effect … of the corporate income tax contributes to improve redistribution and accounts for better comparison with the …
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these scarring effects are larger and more persistent for young adults from the lowest-income backgrounds. …
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Individuals vary considerably in how much they earn during their lifetimes. This study examines the role of the tax-and-transfer system in mitigating such inequalities, which could otherwise lead to disparities in living standards. Utilizing a life-cycle model, we determine that taxes and...
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