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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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Heterogeneity and government revenues : higher taxes at the top?
Guner, Nezih; Lopez-Daneri, Martin; Ventura, Gustavo - 2014
We evaluate the effectiveness of a more progressive tax scheme in raising government revenues. We develop a life …-cycle economy with heterogeneity and endogenous labor supply. Households face a progressive income tax schedule, mimicking the … Federal Income tax, and flat-rate taxes that capture payroll, state and local taxes and the corporate income tax. We …
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Taxes and capital formation
Feldstein, Martin S. (ed.) - 1987
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The effects of taxation on capital accumulation
Feldstein, Martin S. (ed.) - 1987
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Wealth accumulation and factors accounting for success
Pawasutipaisit, Anan; Townsend, Robert M. - In: Journal of econometrics 161 (2011) 1, pp. 56-81
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The measurement of saving, investment, and wealth
Lipsey, Robert E. (ed.) - 1989 - 1. [print.]
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Personal savings from top incomes and household wealth accumulation in the United States : results from disaggregated national accounts
Kumar, Rishabh - In: International journal of political economy : a journal … 45 (2016) 3, pp. 224-240
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The demand for cigarettes as derived from the demand for weight control
Cawley, John H.; von Hinke Kessler Scholder, Stephanie - 2013
about the right weight. The derived demand for cigarettes has important implications for tax policy. Under reasonable …
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Social Protection as an Automatic Stabilizer
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2010
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of social protection systems in Europe and the US to provide (income) insurance against macro level shocks in terms of automatic stabilizers. We find that automatic stabilizers absorb 38% of a proportional income shock and 47% of an idiosyncratic...
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Wie wirken die automatischen Stabilisatoren in der Wirtschaftskrise? Deutschland im Vergleich mit der EU und den USA
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2009
Dieser Beitrag vergleicht die automatischen Stabilisierungswirkungen der Steuer- und Transfersysteme in der Europäischen Union und in den USA in der aktuellen Wirtschaftskrise. Dazu werden zwei Szenarien simuliert: erstens ein proportionaler Einkommensschock, in dem alle Bruttoeinkommen um 5...
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