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Chapter 12 Redistribution
Boadway, Robin; Keen, Michael - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 1, (pp. 677-789). 2000
and measurement of, redistribution. Amongst the themes are: the potential usefulness of apparently inefficient policy … instruments in overcoming the self-selection constraints on redistribution and limiting the damage that ill …, while there are circumstances in which redistribution may plausibly generate efficiency gains, the likelihood that some …
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Deserving poor and the desirability of a minimum wage
Blumḳin, Tomer; Danziger, Leif - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 7 (2018) 6, pp. 1-17
This paper provides a normative justification for the use of a minimum wage as a redistributive tool in a competitive labor market. We show that a government interested in improving the wellbeing of the deserving poor, while being less concerned with their undeserving counterparts, can use a...
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Nonparametric Estimation of Labor Supply Under the Earned Income Tax Credit and Welfare Programs
Wu, Ximing - 2010
This paper examines the effect of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and welfare programs on the labor supply of single mothers. The EITC consists of an earning subsidy program in the form of marginal tax credits to the working poor. The presence of different marginal tax rates at the various...
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Bargaining over Taxes and Entitlements in the Era of Unequal Growth
Azzimonti, Marina; Karpuska, Laura; Mihalache, Gabriel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Entitlement programs have become an increasing component of total government spending in the US over the last six decades. To some observers, this growth of the welfare state is excessive and unwarranted. To others, it is a welcome counter-acting force to the rapid increase in income inequality....
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What's Best for Women : Gender Based Taxation, Wage Subsidies or Basic Income?
Colombino, Ugo - 2012
We use a microeconometric model of household labour supply in order to evaluate, with Italian data, the behavioural and welfare effects of gender based taxation (GBT) as compared to other policies based on different optimal taxation principles. The comparison is interesting because GBT, although...
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What's best for women : gender based taxation, wage subsidies or basic income?
Colombinoa, Ugo; Narazani, Edlira - 2013
Gender based taxation (GBT) has been recently proposed as a promising policy in order to improve women's status in the labour market and within the family. We use a microeconometric model of household labour supply in order to evaluate, with Italian data, the behavioural and welfare effects of...
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Multiple politico-economic regimes, inequality and growth
Desdoigts, Alain; Moizeau, Fabien - 2001
mechanism through which the pressure for redistribution can be highly non linear therefore providing an explanation as to … long run. -- growth ; Community formation ; human capital ; redistribution ; social mobility …
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Multiple Politico-Economic Regimes, Inequality and Growth
Desdoigts, Alain; Moizeau, Fabien - 2001
mechanism through which the pressure for redistribution can be highly non linear therefore providing an explanation as to why …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014127229
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Baseline results from the EU27 EUROMOD (2009 - 2012)
Jara, H. Xavier; Sutherland, Holly; Avram, Silvia; De … - 2013
This paper presents baseline results from the latest version of EUROMOD (version F6.36+), the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the EU. First, we briefly report the process of updating EUROMOD. We then present indicators for income inequality and risk of poverty using EUROMOD and discuss the...
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Baseline results from the new EU27 EUROMOD (2007-2010)
Jara, H. Xavier; Sutherland, Holly; Avram, Silivia; De … - 2013
This paper provides a description of the latest public release of EUROMOD (version F6.0++), a tax-benefit microsimulation model for the EU. First, we briefly report the process of constructing and updating EUROMOD. We then present indicators for income inequality and risk of poverty using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009712467