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Tax structure for consumption and income inequality : an empirical assessment
Alves, José; Afonso, António - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 10 (2019) 3/4, pp. 337-364
In this study, we assess the relationship between several tax items and consumption and income inequality levels. For OECD countries between 1980 and 2015, we use panel data techniques and find tax threshold values regarding inequality levels and consumption. In particular, we obtain threshold...
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Household Income Volatility and Tax Policy : Helping More and Hurting Less, Testimony Before the U.S. Joint Economic Committee
Batchelder, Lily L. - 2010
This testimony makes three main points. First, income volatility, especially when it involves income declines, imposes significant hardships on American families. It heightens stress about finances and may increase household living expenses. These hardships are most pronounced for middle-and...
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Can Redistributive State Taxes Reduce Inequality?
Leigh, Andrew - 2005
Do income taxes levied at a state or regional level affect the after-tax distribution of income? Or do workers merely move between regions, causing pre-tax wages to adjust? This question is relevant both in across states in the United States, and across countries within the European Union. Using...
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Catastrophic Health Expenditure and Household Well-Being
Abul Naga, Ramses H. - 2009
According to the catastrophic health expenditure methodology a household is in catastrophe if its health out-of-pocket budget share exceeds a critical threshold. We develop a conceptual framework for addressing three questions in relation to this methodology, namely: 1. Can a budget share be...
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Estimating the corrective tax for goods whose consumption affects the consumer's health
Alexander, Donald L.; Neill, Jon Raymond - In: Atlantic economic journal : AEJ 45 (2017) 1, pp. 103-117
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Getting tired of work, or re-tiring in absence of decent job opportunities? : some insights from an estimated random utility/random opportunity model on Belgian data
Capéau, Bart; Decoster, André - 2016
changing preferences (executing a job might become less enjoyable with age) or to differences in opportunities (elderly getting … partly the age heterogeneity in opportunities, in the second we remove age heterogeneity in preferences. A comparison of … labour market behaviour in these two counterfactuals with the baseline shows that opportunities which decline with age are at …
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Evaluating education systems
Gravel, Nicholas; Levavasseur, Edward; Moyes, Patrick - In: Applied economics 53 (2021) 45, pp. 5177-5207
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The impact of election information shocks on populist party preferences : evidence from Germany
Gerling, Lena; Kellermann, Kim Leonie - 2019
Despite controversial debates about the social acceptability of its nationalist program, the rightwing populist AfD has recently entered all state parliaments as well as the federal parliament in Germany. Although professed AfD voters faced a likely risk of social stigmatization, electoral...
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Socio-economic status of women Beedi workers in Bundelkhand region of Uttar Prasesh : an empirical analysis
Ansari, Mohd Shamim; Raj, Aparna - In: UTMS journal of economics / University of Tourism and … 6 (2015) 1, pp. 53-66
The central idea of this paper is to explore link between socio-economic positions of women working in unorganized sector with special reference to beedi rolling. In India Beedi making is an age old industry and one of the largest job providers for women in the unorganized sector. Women are...
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Labor market institutions : curse or blessing?
Ochsen, Carsten; Welsch, Heinz - 2006
Previous literature has identified considerable non-pecuniary costs to macroeconomic fluctuation and uncertainty. The present paper investigates whether and to what extent labor market institutions can mitigate those costs. We study how life satisfaction of European citizens is affected by...
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