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Taxes, Transfers, and Income Redistribution in Latin America
Lustig, Nora - In: World Bank - Inequality in Focus 1 (2012) 2, pp. 1-5
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Comparing the incidence of taxes and social spending in Brazil and the United States
Higgins, Sean; Lustig, Nora; Ruble, Whitney; Smeeding, … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013
We perform the first comprehensive fiscal incidence analyses in Brazil and the US, including direct cash and food transfers, targeted housing and heating subsidies, public spending on education and health, and personal income, payroll, corporate income, property, and expenditure taxes. In both...
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Deconstructing the decline in inequality in Latin America
Lustig, Nora; Lopez-Calva, Luis F.; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013
Inequality in Latin America unambiguously declined in the 2000s. The Gini coefficient fell in 16 of the 17 countries … main explanations for the decline in inequality: a reduction in hourly labor income inequality, and more robust and … hourly labor income inequality. The causes behind the decline in returns to schooling, however, have not been unambiguously …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010829489
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Declining inequality in Latin America in the 2000s : the cases of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico
Lustig, Nora; Lopez-Calva, Luis F.; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2012
statistically significant and robust to changes in the time interval, inequality measures, and data sources. In-depth country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010829738
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Why has income inequality in Germany increased from 2002 to 2011? A behavioral microsimulation decomposition
Jessen, Robin - 2016
I propose a method to decompose changes in income inequality into the contributions of policy changes, wage rate … apply this method to decompose the increase in income inequality in Germany from 2002 to 2011, a period that saw tax … inequality reducing effect as measured by the Mean Log Deviation and the Gini coefficient. For the Gini, these effects are offset …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011569309
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Why has income inequality in Germany increased from 2002 to 2011? A behavioral microsimulation decomposition
Jessen, Robin - 2016
I propose a method to decompose changes in income inequality into the contributions of policy changes, wage rate … apply this method to decompose the increase in income inequality in Germany from 2002 to 2011, a period that saw tax … inequality reducing effect as measured by the Mean Log Deviation and the Gini coefficient. For the Gini, these effects are offset …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011574118
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Optimal taxation under different concepts of justness
Jessen, Robin; Metzing, Maria; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2017
A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfarist social welfare function with weights decreasing with income. However, high transfer withdrawal rates in many countries imply very low weights for the working poor in practice. We reconcile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011721857
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Optimal taxation under different concepts of justness
Jessen, Robin; Metzing, Maria; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2017
A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfarist social welfare function with weights decreasing with income. However, high transfer withdrawal rates in many countries imply very low weights for the working poor in practice. We reconcile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011729364
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Optimal taxation under different concepts of justness
Jessen, Robin; Metzing, Maria; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2017
A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfarist social welfare function with weights decreasing with income. However, high transfer withdrawal rates in many countries imply very low weights for the working poor in practice. We reconcile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795302
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Intergenerational transmission of lockdown consequences: prognosis of the longer-run persistence of COVID-19 in Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido; Lustig, Nora; Tommasi, Mariano - In: The Journal of Economic Inequality 19 (2021) 3, pp. 571-598
The shock on human capital caused by COVID-19 is likely to have long lasting consequences, especially for children of low-educated families. Applying a counterfactual exercise we project the effects of school closures and other lockdown policies on the intergenerational persistence of education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014501714