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Fiscal Incidence, Fiscal Mobility and the Poor: A New Approach
Lustig, Nora; Higgins, Sean - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2012
Taxes and transfers can have significant impacts on poverty and inequality. All standard measures are by definition … transfers can lower inequality and poverty (including the severity of poverty) but still make a subgroup of the poor worse off … when standard poverty and inequality indicators decline and overall taxes are progressive. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904625
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Fiscal Incidence, Fiscal Mobility and the Poor: a New Approach
Lustig, Nora; Higgins, Sean - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012
Taxes and transfers can have significant impacts on poverty and inequality. All standard measures are by definition … transfers can lower inequality and poverty (including the severity of poverty) but still make a subgroup of the poor worse off … when standard poverty and inequality indicators decline and overall taxes are progressive. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098387
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Tax policy and income inequality in the US, 1979-2007
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method allowing us to disentangle the policy effect from changing market incomes. Over the period 1979-2007, the cumulative policy effect aggravated inequality by increasing the income share of the top...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957610
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Partisan Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the U.S., 1979-2007
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to disentangle the direct policy effect from the effect of changing market incomes. Over the whole period 1979-2007 the cumulative tax policy effect aggravated income inequality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011085100
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"Crisis and the Poor: Socially Responsible Macroeconomics"
Lustig, Nora - In: ECONOMIA JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN … (2000)
Macroeconomic crises not only affect the current living standards of the poor, but their ability to grow out of poverty …. This paper presents evidence on the impact of economic crisis on poverty and inequality in Latin America. Crises not only … result in higher poverty rates but may cause irreversible damage to the human capital of the poor. In light of this evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021303
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Measuring Impoverishment: An Overlooked Dimension of Fiscal Incidence
Higgins, Sean; Lustig, Nora - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2013
The effect of taxes and benefits on the poor is usually measured using standard poverty and inequality indicators …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010860705
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Commitment to Equity Assessment (CEQ): Estimating the Incidence of Social Spending, Subsidies and Taxes Handbook
Lustig, Nora; Higgins, Sean - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2012
This handbook presents a step-by-step guide to applying the incidence analysis used in the multi-country project CEQ. We define the pre- and post-net transfers income concepts, discuss the methodological assumptions used to construct them, explain how taxes, subsidies and transfers should be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904621
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Social Spending, Taxes and Income Redistribution in Paraguay
Higgins, Sean; Lustig, Nora; Ramirez, Julio; Swanson, Billy - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2013
collection and social spending? Using a standard fiscal incidence analysis, we quantify the reduction in inequality and poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904623
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Declining inequality in Latin America: Some economics, some politics
Birdsall, Nancy; Lustig, Nora; McLeod, Darryl - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009143514
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Deconstructing the Decline in Inequality in Latin America
Lustig, Nora; Lopez-Calva, Luis F.; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2013
Inequality in Latin America unambiguously declined in the 2000s. The Gini coefficient fell in 14 of the 17 countries where there is comparable data, and the change was statistically significant for all of them. Existing studies point to two main explanations for the decline in inequality: a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010860704