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Optimal commodity taxation and redistribution within households
Bargain, Olivier; Donni, Olivier - 2011
Using a collective model of consumption, we characterize optimal commodity taxes aimed at targeting specific individuals within the household. The main message is that distortionary indirect taxation can circumvent the agency problem of the household. Essentially, taxation should discourage less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009730373
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Growth and income redistribution components of changes in poverty : a decomposition analysis for Ireland, 1987 - 2005
Are, Wasiu Adekunle - 2012
This study analysed the contribution of economic growth and redistribution components to aggregate poverty changes in Ireland from 1987-2005, using the Shapley value decomposition approach. The analysis used the household disposable income data from the Household Budget Survey to calculate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733719
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An alternative measure of economic inequality in the light of optics
Majumder, Amlan - 2014
presence of inequality, however, it deviates or refracts from the ideal condition. In this paper, I try to measure economic … inequality from the index of refraction. First, I compute such an index for each stratum to evaluate condition in each and then … add all to propose an overall measure of economic inequality, which appears to be a standardised measure of the length of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011525663
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Top income adjustments and inequality : an investigation of the EU-SILC
Carranza, Rafael; Morgan, Marc; Nolan, Brian - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013186635
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What accounts for the rising share of women in the top 1 %?
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012427497
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Tax-benefit systems in Europe and the US : between equity and efficiency
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Neumann, Dirk; … - 2011
the international comparison in degrees of revealed inequality aversion, but differences in social preferences are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009730378
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The economics of justice as fairness
Abatemarco, Antonio; Stroffolini, Francesca - 2017
the population, and so economic growth. To our knowledge, this is the only possibility for the inequality to be "bought …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011840488
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Optimal taxation, social contract and the four worlds of welfare capitalism
Bargain, Olivier; Spadaro, Amedeo - 2008
Drawing from the formal setting of the optimal tax theory (Mirrlees 1971), the paper identifies the level of Rawlsianism of some European social planner starting from the observation of the real data and redistribution systems and uses it to build a metric that allows measuring the degree of...
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A theory of child targeting
Bargain, Olivier (contributor); Donni, Olivier (contributor) - 2007
There is a large empirical literature on policy measures targeted at children but surprisingly very little theoretical foundation to ground the debate on the optimality of the different instruments. In the present paper, we examine the merit of targeting children through two general policies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003581183
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Tax-benefit revealed redistributive preferences over time : Ireland 1987 - 2005
Bargain, Olivier; Keane, Claire - 2010
By inverting Saez (2002)'s model of optimal income taxation, we characterize the redistributive preferences of the Irish government between 1987 and 2005. The (marginal) social welfare function revealed by this approach is consistently comparable over time and show great stability despite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009729273