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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...
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This study analysed the contribution of economic growth and redistribution components to aggregate poverty changes in … changes into growth and redistribution components revealed that the growth component dominates the redistribution component in …
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To assess the impact of tax-benefit policy changes on income distribution over time, we suggest a methodology based on counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposing changes in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the tax-benefit structure (rules, rates, etc.),...
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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 (dis)similarity of the redistribution systems analyzed. It must be …
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