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Global Growth, Aging and Inequality Across and within Generations
Fehr, Hans; Jokisch, Sabine; Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 2010
of capital and labor, particularly unskilled labor. The good news for the developed world is that China and India will … unskilled workers reflects, in large part, simply the fact that China and India are gradually bringing each of their skill …
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The effects of gaps and disparities on economic growth : a study of 10 former socialist countries from the Central and Eastern Europe, members of the EU
Pescu, Maruşa; Ştefan, Camelia - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 18 (2016) 43, pp. 592-610
The goal of this research paper is to empirically assess the potential effects of macroeconomic determinants of economic growth and to determine the impact of income inequality on economic growth in the long-run in ten former socialist countries from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) which are...
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The Impacts of Sector Growth and Monetary Policy on Income Inequality in Developing Countries
Siami-Namini, Sima - 2017
Using a cross-country panel of 92 developing countries over the period 1990-2014, this paper examines the impacts of sector growth on income inequality. Most low-income people in developing countries are involved in agriculture and related industries, and directly utilize natural resources. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944898
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Optimal redistribution : rising inequality vs. rising living standards
Ferriere, Axelle; Grübener, Philipp; Sachs, Dominik - 2024
Over the last decades, the United States has experienced a large increase in, both, income inequality and living standards. The workhorse models of optimal income taxation call for more redistribution as inequality rises. By contrast, living standards play no role for taxes and transfers in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014551008
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Fiscal policy, growth, income distribution and sociopolitical instability
Alcántar-Toledo, Javier; Venieris, Yannis P. - In: European Journal of Political Economy 34 (2014) C, pp. 315-331
This paper identifies the fiscal instruments that governments can use to promote economic growth when sociopolitical instability (SPI) is present. We show that fiscal policy that takes into account income distribution and SPI transforms a neoclassical growth model into one with both endogenous...
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The redistributive role of government social security transfers on inequality in China
Cai, Meng; Yue, Ximing - 2017
in China. We attempt to answer two questions. First, does inequality of after-transfer income narrow, compared to that of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011876617
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Social policy reforms and economic distances in China, 2002-2013
Gao, Qin; Yang, Sui; Zhai, Fuhua; Wang, Yake - 2017
Using the data from the China Household Income Project (CHIP) in 2002, 2007, and 2013, this chapter examines the … benefits. Despite the expansion of social policy during this period, in both urban and rural China market forces still played a … social benefits. These results suggest that China’s future social policy reforms face continued challenges in terms of …
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Long-run relationship between income inequality and financial development in China
Jalil, Abdul; Feridun, Mete - In: Journal of the Asia Pacific economy 16 (2011) 2, pp. 202-214
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The consequences of the value-added tax on inequality
Alavuotunki, Kaisa; Pirttilä, Jukka - 2015
The adoption of the value-added tax has arguably been one of the most important tax policy measures worldwide, but is also one of the most heatedly debated. While some argue that the VAT has served as a useful tool to boost government revenue, others claim that it is also a regressive tax,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011384093
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Taxation in Latin America : Reflections on Sustainability and the Balance between Equity and Efficiency
Bird, Richard M. - 2009
My aim in this paper is simply to explore in an admittedly discursive and preliminary fashion some aspects of the complex balancing act needed to achieve economically and politically sustainable tax systems in Latin America. By a “sustainable” tax system I mean one that is sufficiently...
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