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Chapter 10 Taxation
Kaplow, Louis - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 1, (pp. 647-755). 2007
This Handbook entry presents a conceptual, normative overview of the subject of taxation. It emphasizes the relationships among the main functions of taxation—notably, raising revenue, redistributing income, and correcting externalities—and the mapping between these functions and various...
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In-depth analysis of tax reforms using the EUROMOD microsimulation model
Picos, Fidel; Schmitz, Marie-Luise - 2016
paving the way for economic recovery, fiscal consolidation and reducing looming inequality problems. The present work sets …
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Income inequality and fiscal redistribution in 47 LIS-countries, 1967-2014
Caminada, Koen; Wang, Jinxian; Goudswaard, Kees Pieter; … - 2017
household primary income inequality and disposable income inequality, redistribution from transfers and income taxes, and the …. LIS data allow us to decompose the trajectory of the Gini coefficient from primary to disposable income inequality in … LIS Budget Incidence Fiscal Redistribution Dataset on Income Inequality (LLBIFR Dataset on Income Inequality 2017) allows …
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Anatomy of policy complementarities
Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 1999
The analysis provides a new explanation for two widespread problems concerning European unemployment policy: the disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment, and the political difficulties in implementing more extensive reform programs. We argue that the heart of...
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A unified perspective on efficiency, redistribution, and public policy
Kaplow, Louis - 2020
Specialized theoretical and empirical research should in principle be embedded in a unified framework that identifies the relevant interactions among different phenomena, enables an appropriate matching of policy instruments to objectives, and grounds normative analysis in individuals' utilities...
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Inequality-minimization with a given public budget
König, Johannes; Schröder, Carsten - 2016
We solve the problem of a social planner who seeks to minimize inequality via transfers with a fixed public budget in a …
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What is Pro-Poor?
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Wodon, Quentin T. - 2004
Assessing whether distributional changes are pro-poor has become increasingly widespread in academic and policy circles. Starting from relatively general ethical axioms, this paper proposes simple graphical methods to test whether distributional changes are indeed pro-poor. Pro-poor standards...
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Fiscal Incidence, Fiscal Mobility and the Poor : A New Approach
Lustig, Nora - 2012
Taxes and transfers can have significant impacts on poverty and inequality. All standard measures are by definition … transfers can lower inequality and poverty (including the severity of poverty) but still make a subgroup of the poor worse off … when standard poverty and inequality indicators decline and overall taxes are progressive …
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Chapter 6 Income poverty in advanced countries
Jäntti, Markus; Danziger, Sheldon - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 1, (pp. 309-378). 2000
This chapter reviews definitional issues that arise in assessing the extent of, and change in, poverty in western … industrialized countries, including the choice of resource, level of poverty line and appropriate adjustments for the size and type … market income poverty can have very different poverty rates once taxes and transfers have been received. Cross …
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The role of inequality in poverty measurement
Alkire, Sabina; Foster, James E. - Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative - 2019
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