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Multidimensional affluence: Theory and applications to Germany and the US
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
This paper suggests multidimensional affluence measures for the top of the distribution. In contrast to commonly used top income shares, they allow the analysis of the extent, intensity and breadth of affluence in several dimensions within a common framework. We illustrate this by analyzing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366276
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Multidimensional Affluence: Theory and Applications to Germany and the US
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper suggests multidimensional affluence measures for the top of the distribution. In contrast to commonly used top income shares, they allow the analysis of the extent, intensity and breadth of affluence in several dimensions within a common framework. We illustrate this by analyzing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283567
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Multidimensional affluence: Theory and applications to Germany and the US
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2011
This paper suggests multidimensional affluence measures for the top of the distribution. In contrast to commonly used top income shares, they allow the analysis of the extent, intensity and breadth of affluence in several dimensions within a common framework. We illustrate this by analyzing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286273
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Shifting Taxes from Labor to Consumption: Efficient, but Regressive?
Pestel, Nico; Sommer, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
on inequality and progressivity become substantially lower when payroll taxes are reduced, which is due to increased work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212759
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Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the U.S., 1978-2009: A Decomposition Approach
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246707
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Tax policy and income inequality in the U.S., 1978—2009: A decomposition approach
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009274354
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Partisan Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the U.S., 1979-2007
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to … tax policy effect aggravated income inequality by increasing the income share of the top 20% in contrast to the middle … class' share. The tax policy effect accounts for up to 29% of the total change in inequality; its contribution increases up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011085100
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Shifting Taxes from Labor to Consumption: Efficient, but Regressive?
Pestel, Nico; Sommer, Eric - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
on inequality and progressivity become substantially lower when payroll taxes are reduced, which is due to increased work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896280
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Tax policy and income inequality in the US, 1979-2007
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method allowing us to … inequality by increasing the income share of the top 20% in contrast to the middle class' share. The tax policy effect accounts … for up to 29% of the total change in inequality; its contribution increases up to 41% if we take into account behavioral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957610
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Shifting taxes from labor to consumption: More employment and more inequality
Pestel, Nico; Sommer, Eric - 2015
persists for PIT reductions, while the overall effects on inequality and progressivity become lower when payroll taxes are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286339