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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...

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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 … changes into growth and redistribution components revealed that the growth component dominates the redistribution component in …

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The economics of justice as fairness

Abatemarco, Antonio; Stroffolini, Francesca - 2017

In this paper we challenge the common interpretation of Rawls' Theory of Justice as Fairness by showing that this Theory, as outlined in the Restatement (Rawls 2001), goes well beyond the definition of a distributive value judgment, in such a way as to embrace efficiency issues as well. A simple...

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Immigration and redistribution

Concannon, Jeff; Elsner, Benjamin - 2020

welcome more immigrants. On theoretical grounds, the relationship between immigration and support for redistribution is … ambiguous. Immigration may increase ethnic diversity, which may reduce the support for redistribution. On the other hand …, natives may demand more redistribution as an insurance against labour market risks brought by immigration. In this chapter, we …

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Immigrant voters, taxation and the size of the welfare state

Chevalier, Arnaud; Elsner, Benjamin; Lichter, Andreas; … - 2018

effects on people's preferences for redistribution. In areas with larger inflows in the 1940s, people have substantially … higher demand for redistribution more than 50 years later. …

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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,...

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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...

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An alternative measure of economic inequality in the light of optics

Majumder, Amlan - 2014

An ideal state of development, when viewed with fantasy, is nothing but a state or condition where light touches everybody without refraction. The diagonal line of the Lorenz Curve Framework represents such an ideal condition. In the presence of inequality, however, it deviates or refracts from...

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Public support for tax policies in COVID-19 times : evidence from Luxembourg

Olivera, Javier; Van Kerm, Philippe - 2022

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Ordinal and cardinal measures of health inequality : an empirical comparison

Madden, David - 2008

When measuring health inequality using ordinal data, analysts typically must choose between indices specifically based upon ordinal data and more standard indices using ordinal data which has been transformed into cardinal data. This paper compares inequality rankings across a number of...

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