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Household incomes in New Zealand: The impact of the market, taxes and government spending, 1987/88–1997/98
Crawford, Ron; Johnston, Grant - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2004
How well have New Zealand households fared over a decade of extensive economic and social changes? This study compares household incomes in 1997/98 with household incomes in 1987/88, using the concept of "final income". Final income is a measure of the income accruing to households after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005121013
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Der Einkommenssteuertarif verteilt stärker um als je zuvor: Eine Simulationsanalyse
Brügelmann, Ralph; Schaefer, Thilo - Finanzwissenschaftlichen Forschungsinstitut, … - 2012
Im Vorfeld der Bundestagswahl 2013 findet in Deutschland eine intensive Debatte über die Umverteilungswirkung der Einkommensteuer statt. Insbesondere mit der Senkung des Spitzensteuersatzes auf zwischenzeitlich 42 und nun 45 Prozent wird eine überproportionale Bevorzugung hoher Einkommen...
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Trade and the Political Economy of Redistribution
Vannoorenberghe, Gonzague; Janeba, Eckhard - CESifo - 2013
, giving rise to a trade-off between redistribution and the inefficiency of the labor allocation. We compare two environments … lower nominal value in open economies, the actual extent of redistribution in equilibrium is larger in the open than in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603854
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Redistribution, production inefficiency and decentralized efficiency
Naito, Hisahiro - In: International Tax and Public Finance 13 (2006) 5, pp. 625-640
This paper analyzes the role of production distortion in income redistribution in an international trade model. In … particular, it examines the role of the Stolper and Samuelson effect on efficient income redistribution. It first shows that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005711252
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Relative Factor Return Gaps in Labour Markets and Global Integration
Mamoon, Dawood - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
We estimate the role of openness and integration in welfare generation in a cross country framework. Once controlling for institutions, openness is generally associated with increased wage inequalities across nations. However the results for trade policy are mixed. Decrease in import taxes...
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Identity and redistribution
Lindqvist, Erik; Östling, Robert - In: Public Choice 155 (2013) 3, pp. 469-491
This paper models the interaction between individuals’ identity choices and redistribution. Both redistributive … redistribution is highest when society is ethnically homogeneous, but the effect of ethnic diversity on redistribution is not …
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Explaining Rising Income Inequality in Germany, 1991-2010
Schmid, Kai Daniel; Stein, Ulrike - Institut für Makroökonomie und Konjunkturforschung … - 2013
in the distribution of market income as well as shifts in the effectiveness of public redistribution mechanisms. We find … decreasing effectiveness of the public mechanisms of income redistribution are the main explanatory factors for the development …
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Top Incomes, Rising Inequality, and Welfare
Lansing, Kevin J.; Markiewicz, Agnieszka - CESifo - 2012
This paper develops a general-equilibrium model of skill-biased technological change that approximates the observed shifts in the shares of wage and non-wage income going to the top decile of U.S. households since 1980. Under realistic assumptions, we find that all agents can benefit from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877730
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Preferences for redistribution after the economic crisis
Olivera, Javier - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2014
This paper analyses the effects of the recent Economic Crisis on individual preferences for redistribution in 23 … highly significant in increasing support for redistribution. It is found that more unemployment and, in particular, youth … unemployment has considerably raised the citizens’ demand for redistribution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878112
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Robust growth-equity decomposition of change in poverty: The case of Iran (2000–2009)
Maasoumi, Esfandiar; Mahmoudi, Vahid - In: The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 53 (2013) 3, pp. 268-276
redistribution components. The decomposition is exact, symmetric and free of residual terms. It is equivalent to the Shapley value … plans). We find that both ‘pure growth’ and ‘redistribution’ components are present in a striking change in poverty …
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