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Race and income distribution: Evidence from the US, Brazil and South Africa
Gradín, Carlos - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010
The aim of this paper is to provide some empirical evidence about black-white differentials in the distribution of income and wellbeing in three different countries: Brazil, US and South Africa. In all cases, people of African descent are in a variety of ways socially disadvantaged compared with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008782824
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An Empirical Study of Tax Evasion Ethics in China
McGee, Robert W.; Yuhua, An - 2007
In 1944, Martin Crowe, a Catholic priest, wrote a doctoral dissertation titled The Moral Obligation of Paying Just Taxes. His dissertation summarized and analyzed 500 years of theological and philosophical debate on this topic, which identified three basic philosophical positions on the issue....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014223883
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Segregation of women into low-paying occupations in the United States
Gradín, Carlos - In: Applied economics 52 (2020) 17, pp. 1905-1920
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Segregation of women into low-paying occupations in the United States
Gradín, Carlos - 2017
We extend the conventional framework for measuring segregation to consider stratification of occupations by gender, i … US has been accompanied by a deeper, longer reduction in gender stratification. We further investigate the role of … workers' characteristics, showing that gender differences cannot explain the levels of segregation/stratification in any year …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011634452
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Income taxation and household size: would French family splitting make German families better off?
Baclet, Alexandre; Dell, Fabien; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2005
In this paper, we address the question whether family support via the income tax system is more generous in France than in Germany, as it is often claimed in the public debate. We use two micro-data sets and a micro-simulation model to compare effective average tax rates for different household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267450
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Income Taxation and Household Size: Would French Family Splitting Make German Families Better off?
Baclet, Alexandre; Dell, Fabien; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2005
In this paper, we address the question whether family support via the income tax system is more generous in France than in Germany, as it is often claimed in the public debate. We use two micro-data sets and a micro-simulation model to compare effective average tax rates for different household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324234
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Income Taxation and Household Size: Would French Family Splitting Make German Families Better Off?
Baclet, Alexandre; Dell, Fabien; Wrohlich, Katharina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
In this paper, we address the question whether family support via the income tax system is more generous in France than in Germany, as it is often claimed in the public debate. We use two micro-data sets and a micro-simulation model to compare effective average tax rates for different household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762279
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Income Taxation and Household Size: Would French Family Splitting Make German Families Better Off ?
Baclet, Alexandre; Dell, Fabien; Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005
In this paper, we address the question whether family support via the income tax system is more generous in France than in Germany, as it is often claimed in the public debate. We use two micro-data sets and a micro-simulation model to compare effective average tax rates for different household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068687
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Income taxation and household size : would French family splitting make German families better off?
Baclet, Alexandre (contributor); Dell, Fabien (contributor);  … - 2005
In this paper, we address the question whether family support via the income tax system is more generous in France than in Germany, as it is often claimed in the public debate. We use two micro-data sets and a micro-simulation model to compare effective average tax rates for different household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003227216
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Conditional occupational segregation of minorities in the U.S.
Gradín, Carlos - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010
In this paper, we use a propensity score-based methodology to analyze the role of demographic and human capital characteristics of minorities in the U.S. in explaining their high occupational segregation with respect to whites. Thus, we measure conditional segregation based on an estimated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008676881