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This paper analyses the pre-tax inequality in the income that individuals actually receive in Brazil and the role of … the personal income tax in regulating these incomes. We produce a new distributional series of fiscal income, consistently … combining annual and nationally representative household survey data with detailed information on income tax declarations …
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deal with vertical inequality – that is, fostering redistribution from the rich to the poor – less is known about their … performance in dealing with horizontal inequality, that is, in redistributing among socio-economic groups. In a context where …) household types over the period 2007-2014 using counterfactual simulation techniques. We find a great degree of heterogeneity …
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This paper evaluates income distributions in four European countries (Austria, Italy, Spain and Hungary) using two …
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While rent taxation in some theories is neutral, and the tax rate could not be set to one hundred percent to minimize …
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attention in the literature on optimal income taxation. This paper offers a simple and transparent analysis of its main …
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Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
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Annual, before-tax income is the most common official statistic used to measure economic well-being and therefore … underlies the design of most anti-poverty programs or other redistributive economic policies. Notwithstanding, extended income … income and age groups, and somewhat different answers about trends in resources over time. More importantly, by explicitly …
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This paper studies how heterogeneity in income dynamics affects the POUM hypothesis (the idea that poor people do not … evaluate their expected future income using both their current income and observable characteristics such as education, race or … aggregate income transition function. Finally, using data from Italy, we test the model and perform a first empirical estimation …
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reducing the net income of low-wage earners. Lower unemployment replacement rates reduce unemployment, the net wage and … reducing net income of workers or the unemployed. Such a policy becomes self-financing under realistic parameter constellations … when taxes are reduced only for low-income workers. …
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The increasing wage inequality in many countries is usually seen as brought about by economic forces that drive for …
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