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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004970062
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011158361
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011211266
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008476367
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Income inequality and social preferences for redistribution and compensation differentials
Kerr, William R. - Suomen Pankki - 2013
-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve …-led redistribution to the poor. These patterns suggest that short-run inequality shocks can be reinforced in the labor market but do not … result in weaker political preferences for redistribution. …
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Income Inequality in the European Union
Fredriksen, Kaja Bonesmo - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
Poor growth performance over the past decades in Europe has increased concerns for rising income dispersion and social exclusion. European authorities have recently launched the Europe 2020 strategy which aims to improve social inclusion in Europe on top of already existing European regional...
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Did VAT change redistribute purchasing power in Italy?
Liberati, Paolo - Dipartimento di Economia e Diritto, Facoltà di Economia - 2000
-1997, questioning their overall redistributive impact compared with an equal-revenue proportional tax rate. By using the theory of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009649928
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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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On Income Inequality and Green Preferences
Marsiliani, Laura; Renström, Thomas I - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
We derive conditions of individual preferences and technology that give rise to a negative correlation between income inequality and environmental protection. We present a class of models (which captures a static model as well as an overlapping-generations model) in which individuals differ in...
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Measuring Progressivity and Inequality
DUCLOS, Jean-Yves - Département d'Économique, Université Laval - 1995
A general class of progressivity indices is proposed which is consistent with the well-developed theory of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670312