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Income inequality, tax base and sovereign spreads
Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper investigates the association between greater income inequality, de-facto fiscal space, and sovereign spreads. Using data from 50 countries in 2007, 2009 and 2011, we find that higher income inequality is associated with a lower tax base, lower de-facto fiscal space, and higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133522
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Income Inequality, Tax Base and Sovereign Spreads
Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 68 (2012) 4, pp. 431-444
This paper investigates the association between greater income inequality, de-facto fiscal space, and sovereign spreads. Using data from 50 countries in 2007, in 2009 and in 2011, we find that higher income inequality is associated with a lower tax base, lower de-facto fiscal space, and higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010628254
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Income inequality, tax base and sovereign spreads
Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin - 2012
This paper investigates the association between greater income inequality, de-facto fiscal space, and sovereign spreads. Using data from 50 countries in 2007, in 2009 and in 2011, we find that higher income inequality is associated with a lower tax base, lower de-facto fiscal space, and higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288122
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Income inequality, tax base and sovereign spreads
Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin - 2011
This note investigates the impact of greater income inequality on the tax base, on the defacto fiscal space, and the sovereign spreads. Using data from 50 countries in 2005 and in 2010, we find that higher income inequality is associated with a lower tax base, lower de-facto fiscal space, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288151
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Economic Growth with Constraints on Tax Revenues and Public Debt: Implications for Fiscal Policy and Cross-Country Differences
Aizenman, Joshua; Kletzer, Kenneth; Pinto, Brian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
This paper evaluates optimal public investment and fiscal policy for countries characterized by limited tax and debt capacities. We study a non stochastic CRS endogenous growth model where public expenditure is an input in the production process, in countries where distortions and limited...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005774856
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Income inequality, tax base and sovereign spreads
Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin - 2012
This paper investigates the association between greater income inequality, de-facto fiscal space, and sovereign spreads. Using data from 50 countries in 2007, in 2009 and in 2011, we find that higher income inequality is associated with a lower tax base, lower de-facto fiscal space, and higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009552172
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Income inequality, tax base and sovereign spreads
Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin - 2011
This note investigates the impact of greater income inequality on the tax base, on the defacto fiscal space, and the sovereign spreads. Using data from 50 countries in 2005 and in 2010, we find that higher income inequality is associated with a lower tax base, lower de-facto fiscal space, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009316243
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Economic Growth with Constraints on Tax Revenues and Public Debt : Implications for Fiscal Policy and Cross-Country Differences
Aizenman, Joshua - 2007
This paper evaluates optimal public investment and fiscal policy for countries characterized by limited tax and debt capacities. We study a non stochastic CRS endogenous growth model where public expenditure is an input in the production process, in countries where distortions and limited...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777949
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Technological Change, Relative Wages, and Unemployment
Aizenman, Joshua - 1994
employment and the level of unemployment in a two-sector economy with a heterogenous work force. Efficiency wage considerations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014397189
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Trade Liberalization and Unemployment
Agénor, Pierre-Richard - 1995
This paper examines the effect of trade reform on wages and unemployment in a two-sector, three-good economy in which …, lowers wages in all production sectors in the short and the medium run but has an ambiguous effect on unemployment. Although … employment and production of exportables expand in the medium run, the unemployment rate may rise or fall depending on whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398463