Rising levels of income inequality and tight government budgets have spurred discussions in many developing nations … about how to appropriately tax high-income earners. In this paper, we study taxpayer responses to an increase in the top … identification design. We establish that treated taxpayers strongly reduce their reported taxable income in response to the tax …

Based on tax records data from Ecuador, we analyse gender differences in top income groups from 2008 to 2017. Ecuador … labour market. While we observe a significant increase in the share of women at the top of the income distribution during … this period, women remain underrepresented in top income groups, at 38.7 per cent in the top 10 per cent income group and …

sector jobs. This paper quantifies impacts on income distribution and efficiency of expanding developing countries' social …

The level of income can be directly inferred from the level of education, making education an important variable as a …

of fiscal policy on income redistribution, and poverty in South Africa. We find, in accordance with previous research …

Over the past two decades, research on the impacts of a diverse range of public policies and income inequality has seen … policy interventions might help to reduce income inequality. This paper aims to fill this void by providing a systematic …

sources of disposable income across the income distribution and estimating the contributions of different policy instruments …