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-cycle model, we determine that taxes and transfers offset 45% of lifetime earnings inequality attributed to differences in …
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national income (or wealth) appropriated by the same income group. In turn, we develop the Fiscal Inequality Coefficient which …
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Can taxes on consumption redistribute in developing countries? Contrary to consensus, we show that taxing consumption is progressive once we account for informal consumption. Using household expenditure surveys in 32 countries we proxy for informal consumption using the type of store where...
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which have been shown to form together with conflict and inequality endogenously; otherwise, this occurs with non corrupt …
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This working paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries …, including 20 Latin American countries, to explore the effects of political parties on redistribution. First, consistent with a … younger and older parties, older left-wing parties are more likely to internalize the long-run costs of redistribution and to …
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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 … redistribution kept the gap in disposable income between those same households roughly constant, while also closing the gap between … some decline in income inequality across the middle 90% of the distribution. In the past decade, key trends turned around …
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