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Over the past decades, top incomes have soared, especially in the English-speaking countries. Despite a considerable amount of research on top income developments, there is still substantial disagreement about the causes for their rapid increase. Potential explanations include changes in...
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unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a decomposition of the GINI index which yields the …
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using the same set of follow-up rules. We apply ANOGI (ANalysis Of GIni) techniques, the equivalent of ANOVA (ANalysis Of … VAriance) performed on the basis of the Gini coefficient. The decomposition followed is presented in Yitzhaki (1994). We …
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Consumption taxes are traditional source of public revenue in the Czech Republic and have been the second largest source of leakage of households' finance in the last decade following the social security contributions. However there is a lack of the precise redistributional analyses of the...
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We suggest a new comprehensive measure of support given through tax-benefit systems to families with children. Using microsimulation techniques, this accounts for all provisions contingent on the presence of children, while usually only gross child/family benefits are considered. We use EUROMOD,...
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This paper examines the redistributive impact of imputed rent (private and public) and indirect taxes (value added tax and excises), comparing this with the effects of cash transfers and direct taxes in five EU countries. The extended income concept, taking into account both imputed rent and...
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Computing the tax-benefit position of similar "typical" households across countries is a method widely used in comparative fiscal- and social policy research. These calculations provide convenient summary pictures of certain aspects of tax-benefit systems. They can, however, be seriously...
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, we provide the coefficient of variation and the Gini index as functions of the power degree of the Pen's parade. In fact … way to compute Gini index in terms of the power degree. Reciprocally, knowing, the coefficient of variation of a said … are given to illustrate our methods. Special attention is given to countries' Gini indices of the World development …
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-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve …-led redistribution to the poor. These patterns suggest that short-run inequality shocks can be reinforced in the labor market but do not … result in weaker political preferences for redistribution. …
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redistribution to finance abatement. By comparing the optimal taxation under alternative political regimes we analyze their … implications for environment, efficiency and growth. We find that left regimes, choosing more progressive redistribution, maintain …, and it dampens the effect of democracy imperfections on redistribution. …
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