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improving social welfare or decreasing poverty for large classes of social welfare and poverty indices. We also derive … estimators of critical poverty lines and economic efficiency ratios which can be used to characterize socially-efficient tax …
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This essay aims at a broad, main-stream account of the literature on inequality and poverty measurement in the space of … relationship between Lorenz, welfare, and inequality orderings. The second section, on poverty, deals with the identification and … aggregation exercises; properties of poverty indices; some specific poverty measures; the problem of plurality and unambiguous …
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poverty despite striking reductions in absolute poverty. The effects of relative deprivation explain why average happiness has …
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poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the … standard poverty indexes. It is argued that negative and zero incomes cannot be treated equally in terms of household well …-being and that standard methods used by practitioners fail to recognize this fact likely resulting in overestimations of poverty. …
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The aim of the article is to assess the impact of taxes on poverty and inequality in Ukraine and provide … recommendations on how taxation should be used to address problems of inequality and poverty. The research methodology is based on a … taxation and social spending on inequality and poverty in individual countries. The dataset consists of data from the World …
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The purpose of this paper is to introduce and adopt a generalised version of Roemer's (1998) Equality of Opportunity (EOp) framework, which we call extended EOp, for analysing second-best optimal income taxation. Unlike the pure EOp criterion of Roemer (1998) the extended EOp criterion allows...
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This article draws up a portrait of effective marginal tax rates (EMTRs) on labour income in Quebec. It aims at allowing a better understanding of the impact of tax policy on the behavior of economic agents. Using an accounting microsimulation model that reproduces the system of taxes and...
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A substantial literature examines second-best environmental policy, focusing particularly on how the Pigouvian directive that marginal taxes should equal marginal external harms needs to be modified in light of the preexisting distortion due to labor income taxation. Additional literature is...
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poverty despite striking reductions in absolute poverty. The effects of relative deprivation explain why average happiness has …
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