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A large body of literature is devoted to the measurement of income inequality, yet little attention is given to the …
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labor income taxation. Additional literature is motivated bythe possibility that distributive concerns should amend the …
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goods should be provided, determining how the provision of public goods affects the desirability of income redistribution …
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distribution-neutral methodology and welfare analysis developed in Kaplow (2008a) and related work, offering applications to income … taxation, commodity taxation, tax expenditures, externalities, public goods, capital income and wealth taxation, social …
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The marginal social value of income redistribution is understood to depend on both the concavity of individuals …' utility functions and the concavity of the social welfare function. In the pertinent literatures, notably on optimal income … symmetric with regard to the social concern about inequality in the distribution of income. Direct examination of the question …
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A large body of literature is devoted to the measurement of income inequality, yet little attention is given to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005049905
The view that intergenerational distributive justice and efficiency should be treated separately is familiar, yet controversial. This article elaborates the often-implicit justifications for separate treatment and provides a more express statement of how and when such treatment is appropriate....
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This essay revisits certain basic features of tax systems as they relate to redistribution. It focuses on how the actual differences between proportional and graduated taxes with regard to redistribution diverge in important ways from what many believe or implicitly assume. The analysis seeks to...
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The view that intergenerational distributive justice and efficiency should be treated separately is familiar, yet controversial. This article elaborates the often-implicit justifications for separate treatment and provides a more express statement of how and when such treatment is appropriate....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760791
The marginal social value of income redistribution is understood to depend on both the concavity of individuals …' utility functions and the concavity of the social welfare function. In the pertinent literatures, notably on optimal income … symmetric with regard to the social concern about inequality in the distribution of income. Direct examination of the question …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014074750