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Can Redistributive State Taxes Reduce Inequality?

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

create a “simulated tax redistribution index”, which captures the mechanical impact of the changes in tax policy on the gini … coefficient, but is exogenous to any behavioral response. Analyzing the effect of this redistribution index on inequality, I find … process further, I create a new class of tax redistribution measures, based on the S-Gini, which differentially weight effects …

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Class or location? What explains the rising tide of absolute global income inequality during 1850-2010?

Goda, Thomas; Torres, Alejandro - UNIVERSIDAD EAFIT - 2015

This paper is the first to decompose absolute global income inequality into its within-country ?class? and between-country ?location? components. The estimates show that until 1970 locational income differences were the main driver of absolute global inequality, whereas its recent growth can be...

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Financial inclusion, rather than size, is the key to tackling income inequality

Martinez Turegano, David; Garcia-Herrero, Alicia - BBVA Research, Grupo BBVA - 2015

In this paper we assess empirically whether financial inclusion contributes to reducing income inequality when controlling for other key factors, such as economic development and fiscal policy. We conclude that financial inclusion contributes to reducing income inequality to a significant...

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Government and human capital in a model of development through modernization and specialization

Yuki, Kazuhiro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

naturally from realistic features of the model and appropriate redistribution can correct the inefficiencies except at a fairly …

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Proportional Income Taxation and Effective Progressivity

Ebert, Udo; Moyes, Patrick - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 2003

When incomes are exogenously given, a progressive tax structure reduces inequality in the sense that the Lorenz curve of after tax incomes is nowhere below that of before tax incomes whatever the circumstances as it was shown by U. Jakobsson (Journal of Public Economics 5 (1976), 161-168) The...

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Democracy Deficits, Inequality and Pollution. A Politico-Economic Analysis

Drosdowski, Thomas - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2005

redistribution to finance abatement. By comparing the optimal taxation under alternative political regimes we analyze their … implications for environment, efficiency and growth. We find that left regimes, choosing more progressive redistribution, maintain …, and it dampens the effect of democracy imperfections on redistribution. …

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Progressivity and decomposition of VAT in the Mexican border, 2014

Huesca, Luis; Valencia, Arturo Robles; Araar, Abdelkrim - Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad … - 2015

We measure the general redistributive effect in the Mexican fiscal system and its northern border with two decomposition approaches. The novelty of this application lies in the use of non-parametric techniques and the fact that we did not assume any functional relationship among the variables in...

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On the emissions-inequality trade-off in energy taxation: Evidence on the German car fuel tax

Nikodinoska, Dragana; Schröder, Carsten - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Freie Universität … - 2015

By using estimates from an Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS), we investigate how the German energy tax on car fuels changes the private households-CO2 emissions, living standards, and post-tax income distribution. Our results show that the tax implies a trade-off between the aim to reduce...

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Microsimulation Model for Distributional Analysis of Consumption Taxes

Klazar, Stanislav; Zelený, Martin - In: Český finanční a účetní časopis 2008 (2008) 3, pp. 56-68

Consumption taxes are traditional source of public revenue in the Czech Republic and have been the second largest source of leakage of households' finance in the last decade following the social security contributions. However there is a lack of the precise redistributional analyses of the...

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Common and Foral IRPF after the 1998 reform: analysis of the differences of collection and redistribution through microsimulation

Delgado, Francisco J. - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2003) 2, pp. 103-120

progressivity and redistribution. The Navarrese system throws a fiscal pressure similar to the Basque, but with the progressivity …

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