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Social Spending, Taxes and Income Redistribution in Uruguay
Bucheli, Marisa - 2012
How much redistribution does Uruguay accomplish through social spending and taxes? How progressive are revenue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100422
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Living with Leviathan : Public Spending, Taxes and Economic Performance
Smith, David Brian - 2007
This monograph examines the growth of public spending in the UK. Using empirical evidence, evidence from theory, and the results of economic modelling, the author considers the wider economic consequences of the current high level of government spending. It is clear from the analysis that UK...
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Tying governments' hands in commodity taxation
Schuknecht, Ludger - 1998 - Manuscript date: May, 1997; Revised: May, 1998
In the 1970s, taxation of "windfall" profits from primary products and intervention in trade and production has tempted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010227582
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Multiple politico-economic regimes, inequality and growth
Desdoigts, Alain; Moizeau, Fabien - 2001
mechanism through which the pressure for redistribution can be highly non linear therefore providing an explanation as to … whymore inequality can be associated with less, rather than more, redistributive taxation. Our framework displays multiple … long run. -- growth ; Community formation ; human capital ; redistribution ; social mobility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009615432
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Multiple Politico-Economic Regimes, Inequality and Growth
Desdoigts, Alain; Moizeau, Fabien - 2001
mechanism through which the pressure for redistribution can be highly non linear therefore providing an explanation as to why … more inequality can be associated with less, rather than more, redistributive taxation. Our framework displays multiple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014127229
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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 through a combination of the quality of child-rearing and formal schooling. The existence of multiple steady states is established, including a poverty trap, wherein children work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001627390
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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 through a combination of the quality of child-rearing and formal schooling. The existence of multiple steady states is established, including a poverty trap, wherein children work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403095
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Bargaining over Taxes and Entitlements in the Era of Unequal Growth
Azzimonti, Marina; Karpuska, Laura; Mihalache, Gabriel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Entitlement programs have become an increasing component of total government spending in the US over the last six decades. To some observers, this growth of the welfare state is excessive and unwarranted. To others, it is a welcome counter-acting force to the rapid increase in income inequality....
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El impacto distributivo de la gestión fiscal en la República Dominicana
Santana, Isidoro; Rathe, Magdalena - 1992
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Fiscal policy and gender income inequality : the role of taxes and social spending
Abramovsky, Laura; Selwaness, Irene N. - Overseas Development Institute - 2023
Persistent inequalities between women and men in income, unpaid work, paid work and other dimensions disadvantage women, undermine human rights and damage economic prosperity. Despite the challenges in measuring economic resources at the individual level in a consistent manner across countries,...
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