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Tax and public finances : the fundamentals
Delestre, Isaac; Miller, Helen - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014333371
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The social pay gap across occupations : survey and experimental evidence
Bublitz, Elisabeth; Regner, Tobias - 2016
), incorporates social occupations in the lab society, and allows for (voluntary) redistribution among subjects. The results show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455517
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Fiscal federalism and income inequality : an empirical analysis for Switzerland
Feld, Lars P.; Frey, Christian; Schaltegger, Christoph A.; … - 2018
This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal federalism on income inequality and redistribution. Theoretically … concentration in pre- and after-tax income without additional redistribution via progressive taxes. It is, however, crucial to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011942832
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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria - 2019
life-cycle model, we find that redistribution by taxes and transfers off sets 54% of the inequality in lifetime earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012108653
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Shifting tax burden to top income earners : what is the best way to reduce inequality?
Onrubia, Jorge; Picos, Fidel; Rodado, María del Carmen - 2019
The authors analyze to what extent and how the tax burden should be shifted towards top income earners in order to reduce income inequality. Starting from Lambert and Aronson (Inequality decomposition analysis and the Gini coefficient revisited 1993) and Alvaredo (A note on the relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110760
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The impact of the tax system structure on the narrowing of income disparities in OECD countries
Mazurek-Chwiejczak, Małgorzata - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 12 (2016) 3, pp. 27-37
Social disparities have a common and consistent character in the vast majority of contemporary countries. The level of income inequality in OECD countries has grown in the past 30 years and is still rising. Taxes and tax systems, aside from social transfers, are fiscal instruments widely used in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011616747
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Minimum wages as a redistributive device in the long run
Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Moutos, Thomas - 2014
This paper analyzes long run outcomes resulting from adopting a binding minimum wage in a neoclassical model with perfectly competitive labour markets and capital accumulation. The model distinguishes between workers of heterogeneous ability and capitalists who do all the saving, and it entails...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010428828
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The tax structure of an economy in crisis : Greece 2009-2017
Leventi, Chrysa; Picos, Fidel - 2019
one of 2011 being designed to have the largest fiscal gains. The latter also strengthened redistribution and achieved the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154595
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On the interaction between minimum wage adoption and fiscal redistribution : a theoretical and empirical investigation
Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Kammas, Pantelis; Moutos, Thomas - 2020
"blunt instrument" for redistribution. To do so we build a model in which workers are heterogeneous in ability, and the … government engages in redistribution through the public provision of private goods. We show that the MW institution is … politically viable only when there is a limited degree of in-kind redistribution. To examine the empirical relevance of our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229263
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The end of cheap talk about poverty reduction : the cost of closing the poverty gap while maintaining work incentives
Collado, Diego; Cantillon, Béa; Van den Bosch, Karel; … - 2017
How can poverty reduction be improved and at what cost? Available evidence suggests that social investment strategies and employment policies are important but not sufficient. In order to reduce the number of people below the relative at-risk-of-poverty threshold of the EU, countries must...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011676005