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intervention and redistribution. Due to obvious behavioral effects caused by redistribution, it is however not clear whether …
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Due to behavioral effects triggered by redistributional interventions, it is still an open question whether government policies are able to effectively reduce income inequality. We contribute to this research question by using different country-level data sources to study inequality trends in...
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deal with vertical inequality - that is, fostering redistribution from the rich to the poor - less is known about their … individuals may not only care about vertical redistribution, but also about the economic situation of the specific groups they … belong to, the horizontal dimension of redistribution becomes politically salient and can be a source of social tensions. We …
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deal with vertical inequality - that is, fostering redistribution from the rich to the poor - less is known about their … individuals may not only care about vertical redistribution, but also about the economic situation of the specific groups they … belong to, the horizontal dimension of redistribution becomes politically salient and can be a source of social tensions. We …
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; inequality ; redistribution …
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We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method allowing us to disentangle the policy effect from changing market incomes. Over the period 1979-2007, the cumulative policy effect aggravated inequality by increasing the income share of the top...
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, we analyse the progressivity and redistribution induced by the tax benefit systems in the EUR-15 countries. We show that … the German system as a whole employs only a medium level of redistribution. However, this can be decomposed into a highly …
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