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Declining International Inequality and Economic Divergence: Reviewing the Evidence Through Different Lenses
Bourguignon, Francois; Levin, Victoria; Rosenblatt, David - In: Economie Internationale (2004) 100, pp. 13-26
In recent years, an ample literature has emerged on the evolution of global inequality during the last two decades. A few stylized facts emerge. If one weights countries by their population, then inequality across countries has declined. However, if one treats countries equally – as in the...
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A Single-Mindedness model with n generations
Emanuele, Canegrati - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper I will analyse the redistribution of income amongst n generations using the Single-mindedness Theory. I …
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Charting Income Inequality: The Lorenz Curve
Bellù, Lorenzo G.; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper explains how to build Lorenz Curves for income distributions and discusses their use for inequality measurement. A short conceptual background, a step-by-step procedure and a simple numerical example illustrate how to calculate and draw Lorenz Curves. A discussion on the use of Lorenz...
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Social Welfare Analysis of Income Distributions: Ranking Income Distributions with Crossing Generalised Lorenz Curves
Bellù, Lorenzo Giovanni; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper illustrates how Crossing Generalised Lorenz (GL) curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options. It starts by illustrating two alternative income distributions...
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Income Equality, School Performance and Educational Mobility
Bauer, Philipp C.; Schaltegger, Christoph A. - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2011
Is income equality a precondition for higher school performance and higher educational mobility? Or is the opposite true? We test empirically whether school performance and intergenerational transmission of educational attainment is depending on income equality on the local level. Using Swiss...
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Tax And Education Policy In A Heterogeneous Agent Economy: What Levels Of Redistribution Maximize Growth And Efficiency?
Bénabou, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
costs and benefits of redistribution are generally of the same order of magnitude, resulting in reasonable values for the …
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Professions, entrepreneurs, employees and the new German tax (cut) reform 2000 - A MICSIM microsimulation analysis of distributional impacts
Merz, Joachim; Stolze, Henning; Zwick, Markus - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, Fakultät … - 2002
With the tax reform 2000 Germany has seen the implementation of the most ambitious tax reduction programme in its post-war history. In the period from 1998 to 2005, taxpayers will benefit substantially from net tax relief more than DM 100 billions in total. It is expected, that private...
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Verteilungswirkungen der Steuerreform 2000/2005 im Vergleich zum ‚Karlsruher Entwurf'
Merz, Joachim; Zwick, Markus - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, Fakultät … - 2002
The actual tax reform 2000/2005 and their alternative proposals are prominent in the actual economic and social policy discussion. The question of the individual impacts to the tax payers is pronounced in the political discussion beyond traditional taxation aims to cover public expenditures and...
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Effects of siblings and birth order on income redistribution preferences: Evidence based on Japanese General Social Survey
Yamamura, Eiji - Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI) - 2012
The Japanese General Social Survey was used to determine how individual preferences for income redistribution are … income redistribution when the child was male. However, such a tendency was not observed when the child was female. (2) The … larger the number of elder brothers, the more likely an individual preferred income redistribution. However, the number of …
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Trust in government and its effect on preferences for income redistribution and perceived tax burden
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
redistribution and individual perceptions regarding income tax burden. Three measures for trust in government are used: “trust in … individual characteristics, the key findings are: (1) people are more likely to express preferences for income redistribution …
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