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Skewness, Tax Progression, and Demand for Redistribution : Evidence from the UK
Pogorelskiy, Kirill - 2018
We introduce a skewness-based approach to measure tax progression and demand for redistribution. We provide a political … redistribution (Meltzer and Richard, 1981) and the Prospect Of Upward Mobility (POUM) mechanism (Benabou and Ok, 2001), as well as … enough that the observed redistribution (or lack thereof) could be consistent with the POUM hypothesis, more recent periods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012934159
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Redistributive effect and the progressivity of taxesand benefits : evidence for the UK, 1977-2018
Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012655244
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Income inequality and the size of government : a causal analysis
Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin - 2019
Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from the problem of endogeneity of government size with respect to the distribution of income. Studying 30 European countries over the period 2004-2015, we apply instrumental variable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012151150
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Income inequality and the size of government : a causal analysis
Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin - 2018
Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from the problem of endogeneity of government size with respect to the distribution of income. Studying 30 European countries over the period 2004-2015, we apply instrumental variable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955505
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Better off or more apart? : empirically testing welfare and inequality dominance criteria
Beach, Charles M. - 2022
This paper provides the tools and procedures for empirically implementing several dominance criteria for social welfare comparisons and broad income inequality comparisons. Dominance criteria are expressed in terms of vectors of quantile ordinates based on income shares or quantile means....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013169202
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You, me and the mean : a semiparametric approach to the redistributive effects of transfer programs
Garcia-Medina, B. Cecilia - 2016
I examine how changes in the receipt of social transfers benefits associated to program reforms have affected the Canadian income distribution over the 1996-2006 period. Using the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, I apply nonparametric decomposition methods to construct density...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547623
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The growth of US top income inequality : a hierarchical redistribution hypothesis
Fix, Blair - 2018
What accounts for the growth of US top income inequality? This paper proposes a hierarchical redistribution hypothesis …; and (4) the "fattening" of the entire income distribution tail. This result supports the hierarchical redistribution … hypothesis. It is also consistent with the available empirical evidence on within-firm income redistribution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011880804
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Income Inequality and the Size of Government : A Causal Analysis
Guzi, Martin - 2019
Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from the problem of endogeneity of government size with respect to the distribution of income. Studying 30 European countries over the period 2004-2015, we apply instrumental variable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894558
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Gini Indices and the Redistribution of Income
Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2014
and redistribution of income generalise to the family of indices based on the extended Ginis of Donaldson and Weymark …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014191406
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Gini Indices and the Redistribution of Income
Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2014
and redistribution of income generalise to the family of indices based on the extended Ginis of Donaldson and Weymark …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014191766