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“the rich are powerful and they dont like taxes, hence we have little taxation and little redistribution.” That is a good … taxation and non-negligible redistributive efforts. But in some of those cases such redistribution comes hand in hand with … outcomes (including the degree of redistribution and others). We postulate that each configuration of social outcomes emerges …
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addition, taxes and transfers contribute less to income redistribution than in other OECD countries. If well designed, reforms …
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How can poverty reduction be improved and at what cost? Available evidence suggests that social investment strategies and employment policies are important but not sufficient. In order to reduce the number of people below the relative at-risk-of-poverty threshold of the EU, countries must...
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policy makers in emerging and developing countries in particular. -- Brazil ; inequality ; poverty ; redistribution …
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Income inequality in Colombia has declined since the early 2000s but remains very high by international standards. While most of the inequality originates from the labour market, wealth – and thus capital income – is also highly concentrated and the tax and transfer system has little...
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inequality translates into greater redistribution by shaping the median voter's preferences. While numerous papers have tested … this proposition, the literature has remained divided over the appropriate measure for redistribution. Revisiting the … redistribution should increase in line with inequality. An empirical test based on 110 observations from the Luxembourg Income Study …
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We introduce a new class of generalized measures of relative deprivation. The class takes the form of a power mean of order p . A characteristic of the class is that depending on the value of the proximity-sensitive parameter p , the class is capable of accommodating both a decreasing weight...
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Using observational micro data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), we assess the redistributive impact of tax and transfer configurations across 22 OECD countries for the period 1999-2013. After recovering new tax data (employer social contributions), we measure the reduction of income...
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Understanding the distributional impacts of market-based climate policies is crucial to design economically efficient climate change mitigation policies that are socially acceptable and avoid adverse impacts on the poor. Empirical studies that examine the distributional impacts of carbon pricing...
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of fiscal policy on income redistribution, and poverty in South Africa. We find, in accordance with previous research …
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