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Tax-benefit revealed redistributive preferences over time: Ireland 1987 - 2005
Bargain, Olivier; Keane, Claire - 2010
By inverting Saez (2002)'s model of optimal income taxation, we characterize the redistributive preferences of the Irish government between 1987 and 2005. The (marginal) social welfare function revealed by this approach is consistently comparable over time and show great stability despite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274642
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Tax-benefit revealed redistributive preferences over time: Ireland 1987 - 2005
Bargain, Olivier; Keane, Claire - 2010
By inverting Saez (2002)'s model of optimal income taxation, we characterize the redistributive preferences of the Irish government between 1987 and 2005. The (marginal) social welfare function revealed by this approach is consistently comparable over time and show great stability despite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009012491
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New imputation procedures in the measurement of inequality, growth, and poverty in Brazil
Hecksher, Marcos; Neri, Marcelo Cortes; Silva, Pedro … - 2018
This paper develops a new imputation methodology applied to missing incomes values in PNAD. PNAD is the main Brazilian household survey, but it has no imputation. The imputation process starts by fitting regression models applied to different income sources considering the complex sampling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011921416
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Matching household surveys with DHS data to create nationally representative time series of poverty : an application to Bolivia
Grosse, Melanie; Klasen, Stephan; Spatz, Julius - 2009 - This version: December 19, 2009
In many developing countries, there does not exist a time series of nationally repre- sentative household budget or income surveys, while there often are urban household surveys as well as nationally representative Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258036
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Income Growth and its Distribution from Eisenhower to Obama : The Growing Importance of In-Kind Transfers (1959-2016)
Elwell, James - 2019
We provide the first survey-based look at levels and trends in income and its distribution from 1959 to 2016 by linking Current Population Survey data from 1967 through 2016 with decennial Census data for 1959. We find that the dramatic decline in the market income of the middle class (measured...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859294
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Income growth and its distribution from Eisenhower to Obama : the growing importance of in-kind transfers (1959-2016)
Elwell, James; Corinth, Kevin; Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2019
We provide the first survey-based look at levels and trends in income and its distribution from 1959 to 2016 by linking Current Population Survey data from 1967 through 2016 with decennial Census data for 1959. We find that the dramatic decline in the market income of the middle class (measured...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012136882
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Gini and optimal income taxation by rank
Simula, Laurent; Trannoy, Alain - 2020
trade-off between size and inequality using the Gini or related families of positional indices. The key idea is that when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012174704
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Bunching and rank-dependent optimal income taxation
Simula, Laurent; Trannoy, Alain - 2020
(1987) and weights agree with the Lorenz quasi-ordering. Gini, S-Gini, and a class putting more emphasis on inequality in … for the maximin, Gini, and "illfare-ranked single-series Ginis". We then turn to a discrete population setting, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249289
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Status aspirations, wealth inequality, and economic growth
Stark, Oded - 2005
population's wealth, the corresponding aggregate measure of want of social status is shown to be positively related to the Gini … coefficient of wealth inequality. Hence the Gini coefficient and growth are positively correlated, holding the population's wealth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293749
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Data Issues and Databases Used in Analysis of Growth, Poverty and Economic Inequality
Heshmati, Almas - 2004
This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international inequality. A discussion of data quality, data consistency,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262015