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Joint taxation in Spain and its effects on social welfare : a microsimulation analysis
Badenes Plá, Nuria; Blanco Palmero, Patricia; … - 2020
This paper focuses on the study of the effects on social welfare generated by the scheme of joint taxation of the Spanish Personal Income Tax (PIT), whose peculiarity linked to its condition of optionality, allows the minimization of households´ tax bill. Different scenarios are simulated using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012439073
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Income redistribution in Latin America : a microsimulation approach
Arancibia Romero, Cristina; Dondo, Mariana; Jara, H. Xavier - 2019
, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Our analysis makes use of tax-benefit microsimulation models based on harmonized … of microsimulation techniques to assess the redistributive role of tax-benefit systems in the region in a comparable … manner, and highlights the advantages offered by microsimulation models to evaluate the effect of policy reforms aiming to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966611
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025339
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Distributional Effects of Optimal Commodity Taxes Combined with Minimum Income Programs in Brazil
Barbosa, Ana Luiza Neves de Holanda; Fiuza, Eduardo P.S; … - 2003
equilibrium numerical micro-simulation of the distributional effects of optimal commodity taxation combined with minimum income …
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Welfare analysis and redistributive policies
Bargain, Olivier - 2017
Applied welfare analyses of redistributive systems nowadays benefit from powerful tax benefit microsimulation programs …
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Getting the poor to work : three welfare increasing reforms for a busy Germany
Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Steiner, Viktor - 2015
and full-time work, respectively. We estimate labor supply reactions and welfare effects using a microsimulation model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011298903
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Getting poor to work : three welfare increasing reforms for a busy Germany
Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Steiner, Viktor - 2015
and full-time work, respectively. We estimate labor supply reactions and welfare effects using a microsimulation model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011305299
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Optimal Family Taxation and Income Inequality
Apps, Patricia F. - 2017
This paper presents the properties of optimal piecewise linear income tax systems for families based on joint and individual incomes respectively. It models the interaction between the wage rates of mothers as "second earners" and variation in child care prices and productivities as determinants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963963
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Tax policy reform and universal basic income effectiveness in a currency union : implications for long-term growth, inequality, and welfare
Kame Babilla, Thierry U. - In: Journal of government and economics : JGE 10 (2023), pp. 1-15
This paper aims to assess tax policy reforms that can sustain universal basic income programs and foster long-term growth and welfare in a currency union that faces fiscal rule constraints and inequality. To address this ongoing government and economics' debate, we developed a Dynamic Stochastic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014414077
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Individual poverty measurement using a fuzzy intrahousehold approach
Betti, Gianni; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Piccoli, Luca - 2017
This work studies the impact of accounting for intrahousehold inequality in the distribution of resources for the measurement of poverty. For the estimation of intrahousehold distribution of resources the study relies on collective Engel curves. For the poverty analysis, we propose a fuzzy...
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