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A Contribution to the Positive Theory of Direct Taxation

Emanuele, Canegrati - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

In this paper I analyse a probabilistic voting model where political candidates choose a direct taxation policy to maximise the probability of winning elections. Society is divided into groups which have di¤erent preferences for consumption of leisure or, in other words, are di¤erently...

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Income Distribution And Rent Seeking Costs: A Note

Antonelli, Maria Alessandra - In: Annals of the University of Petrosani, Economics 10 (2010) 3, pp. 5-12

This paper analyzes a rent seeking competition where risk neutral agents have a different income. The individual income is private information but the income distribution is common information. Like the Hillman and Samet (1987) model the individual outlays in rent seeking is equal to the...

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Inequality and well-being in income distribution, 1973-2000

Ayala, Luis; Jurado Málaga, Antonio; Pedraja Chaparro, … - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2006) 8, pp. 5-30

convergence process. We also use abbreviated social welfare functions in order to capture regional differences and their changes …

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Trends in Inequality, Welfare, and Growth in Pakistan, 1963-64 to 2004-05

Zakir, Nadia; Idrees, Muhammad - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

The present study investigates the trends in inequality, welfare, and growth based on per capita household income … and the Sen welfare index to estimate welfare. Real per capita mean incomes/consumption are worked out to analyse growth …. The study finds fluctuating trends in inequality, and rising trends in both welfare and growth. In general, inequality …

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La desigualdad en México: cambios en el largo plazo (1968-2002)

Camberos, Mario - In: Revista Nicolaita de Estudios Económicos II (2007) 1, pp. 75-94

This paper analyzes the Mexican long-term changes of income distribution inequality by factors’ decomposition during the period 1968-2002. Dominance and ordering criteria is used, and also a parametric estimation (Fields, 2003) using Theil’s index decomposition. Monetary income of...

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Inequality and welfare in Spain and its Autonomous Communities

Goerlich, Francisco José; Villar, Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

distribution have contributed to the increase in welfare beyond the observed increase in per capita income. …

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Modelling Agricultural Trade and Policy Impacts in Less Developed Countries

Brooks, Jonathan; Dyer, George; Taylor, Ed - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2008

This paper proposes a methodological framework for examining the distributional effects of alternative agricultural policies in less developed economies. The framework combines disaggregated household models with an explicit modelling of the linkages between product and factor markets.

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Statistical Inference and Lorenz Curves: An empirical example using Finnish Income Data

Aura, Saku - Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus (VATT), Government … - 1996

generalisations. These curves are useful devices for examining welfare and inequality. Asymptotical sampling properties of the Lorenz … Lorenz criterion it is also found out that welfare in income distribution has been rising in chronological order for the …

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Per-capita income versus household-need adjusted income: a cross-country comparison

Koulovatianos, Christos; schröder, carsten; Minkovski, … - In: Journal of Income Distribution 18 (2009) 3-4, pp. 11-23

We use data from the Luxembourg Income Study in order to quantify the economy-wide monetary gains achieved by Household-Size Economies, due to the within-household sharing of goods by individuals living in multi-member households. In most of the twenty countries we examine, we observe a decline...

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The Social Consequences of the Crisis

Bagnasco, Arnaldo - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2010) 3

recession is the long-period trend to be seen towards increasing social inequality. In the case of Italy the data reveal …

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