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Should two-band income taxes be progressive given a general income distribution? We provide a negative answer under utilitarian and max-min welfare functions. While this result clarifies some ambiguities in the literature, it does not rule out progressive taxes in general. If we maximize total...
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income effects. In West Germany, they cancel out to give no effect of comparison income on life satisfaction in the whole … comparison effect in the whole sample for both West Germany and the UK. The residual age-happiness relationship is hump-shaped in …In contrast to previous results combining all ages, we find positive effects of comparison income on happiness for the …
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In contrast to previous results combining all ages we find positive effects of comparison income on happiness for the … income effects. In GSOEP they cancel to give no effect of effect of comparison income on life satisfaction in the whole …
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Should two-band income taxes be progressive given a general income distribution? We provide a negative answer under utilitarian and max-min welfare functions. While this result clarifies some ambiguities in the literature, it does not rule out progressive taxes in general. If we maximize total...
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Capital income subsidies, and reliance on indirect consumption taxes have created an increasingly regressive overall tax system in the UK, US and elsewhere, with proportionately much greater impact on the poor than on the rich, and welfare cuts under ten years of austerity have had the largest...
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