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transfers and public goods are each integrated into a common optimal tax framework with the income tax and commodity taxes at …
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This paper examines whether income transparency - the public release of citizens' income information - affects support for redistribution. We leverage a quasi-experiment in Finland, where every year on the so-called tax day, the authorities release income information on Finland's top earners to...
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should receive more support. The education system should provide more support to students at risk of falling behind to reduce … without affecting learning progress much. Scaling up vocational courses and adult education, including in the context of …
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We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital … into a condition of continuous growth through a program of taxes and transfers. Temporary inequality is a necessary … condition to escape in finite time, but long-run inequalities are avoidable provided sufficiently heavy, but temporary taxes can …
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This study presents new homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden over the period 1903 to 2004. We find that, starting from higher levels of inequality than in other Western countries, the income share of the Swedish top decile drops sharply over the first eighty years of the century. The...
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changes in markups, taxes, factor productivity, and asset prices affect inequality dynamics over the 1984-2018 period. Rising …
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