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Does income transparency affect support for redistribution? : evidence from Finland's tax day
Dunaiski, Maurice; Tukiainen, Janne - 2023
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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The Bottom Twenty : an analysis of income inequality in high income and developing countries, 1990-2010
Warburton, Christopher E. S. - In: Applied econometrics and international development 16 (2016) 2, pp. 5-24
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Reducing inequality and poverty in Portugal
Arnold, Jens Matthias; Rodrigues, Carlos Farinha - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399658
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Child labor and the education of a society
Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans - 2001
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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The effects of tax policy and labour market institutions on income inequality
Obadić, Alka; Šimurina, Nika; Sonora, Robert - In: Zbornik radova Ekonomskog Fakulteta u Rijeci : časopis … 32 (2014) 1, pp. 121-140
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The impact of taxes and transfers of poverty and income distribution in South Africa 2014/2015
Goldman, Maya; Woolard, Ingrid; Jellema, Jon - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012695632
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The evolution of top incomes in an egalitarian society : Sweden, 1903 - 2004
Roine, Jesper (contributor);  … - 2006
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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Markups, taxes, and rising inequality
Auray, Stéphane; Eyquem, Aurélien; Garbinti, Bertrand; … - 2022
changes in markups, taxes, factor productivity, and asset prices affect inequality dynamics over the 1984-2018 period. Rising …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013384710
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Policy misperceptions, information, and the demand for redistributive tax reform : experimental evidence from Latin American countries
Ardanaz, Martin; Hübscher, Evelyne; Keefer, Philip; … - 2022
Why do individuals' preferences for redistribution often diverge widely from their material self-interest? Using an original online survey experiment spanning eight countries and 12,000 respondents across Latin America, one of the most unequal regions in the world, we find significant evidence...
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Critical Remarks on Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty-first Century'
Homburg, Stefan - 2014
This paper is about “Capital in the Twenty-first Century” by Thomas Piketty. It identifies his central macroeconomic claims and examines them, arguing that the contentions are theoretically and empirically unwarranted.
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