En el presente documento se analiza la relación entre desigualdad, elevada concentración del ingreso y tributación sobre las altas rentas en América Latina. Los objetivos de la publicación son, por un lado, promover la discusión sobre los instrumentos con que cuentan los países...

There is clear evidence that fairness plays a role in redistribution. Individuals want to compensate others for their misfortune, while they allow them to enjoy the fruits of their effort. This paper introduces fairness in a tax-benefit scheme that is based on several characteristics in order to...

There is clear evidence that fairness plays a role in redistribution. Individuals want to compensate others for their misfortune, while they allow them to enjoy the fruits of their effort. Such fairness considerations have been introduced in political economy and optimal income tax models with a...

We study fair and efficient tax-benefit schemes based on income and non-income factors under partial control. Partial control means that each factor is a specific mixture of unobserved ability (randomly drawn by nature) and effort (chosen by individuals who differ in tastes). Factors differ in...

We characterize a measure of social welfare for linear production economies in which individuals differ in productive skills and preferences. The key feature of our measure is that it aggregates fairness gaps, defined as the difference between the money-metric utility that the individual...

El mundo enfrenta un panorama de alta incertidumbre durante el 2020 como resultado de la pandemia del coronavirus y sus efectos sobre la población y la economía global. La propagación del COVID-19, aparte de su impacto sobre la población y la salud pública, condujo en todo el mundo a...