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Fractionalization and the size of government
Lind, Jo Thori - 2003
fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for redistribution. Whereas within group inequality increases support for … redistribution, inequality between groups has the opposite effect. All these results hold even if a poor group is in majority. Using … a panel data set for the US constructed from micro data, I find support for the hypothesis that within race inequality …
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Fractionalization and the Size of Government
Lind, Jo Thori - 2003
This paper studies the joint effect of fractionalization and inequality on the size of government. Within a political … fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for redistribution. Whereas within group inequality increases support for … redistribution, inequality between groups have the opposite effect. All these results hold even if a poor group is in majority. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508116
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Reform Options for the Estate Tax System : Targeting Unearned Income, Testimony Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
Batchelder, Lily L. - 2010
This testimony makes three main points. First, inheritances tend to exacerbate existing economic disparities and may be the most important barrier to intergenerational economic mobility. These tendencies are most pronounced at the top of the income distribution. While inherited income is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014045314
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Consumption inequality and family labor supply
Blundell, Richard; Pistaferri, Luigi; Saporta-Eksten, Itay - 2014
In this paper we examine the link between wage inequality and consumption inequality using a life cycle model that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605701
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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010
Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270632
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Optimal taxation, inequality and top incomes
Andrienko, Jurij; Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2014
In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and … an appropriate response to rising inequality is a shift towards a more progressive multi-bracket income tax system, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010374096
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What has been happening to UK income inequality since the mid-1990s? : answers from reconciled and combined household survey and tax return data
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2016
Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household … top incomes in the latter, and provide improved estimates of UK inequality trends since the mid-1990s. We show there was a … marked increase in income inequality in the early 2000s that survey-based estimates do not reveal, and our conclusions are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434172
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What has been happening to UK income inequality since the mid-1990s? : answers from reconciled and combined household survey and tax return data
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2016
Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household … top incomes in the latter, and provide improved estimates of UK inequality trends since the mid-1990s. We show there was a … marked increase in income inequality in the early 2000s that survey-based estimates do not reveal, and our conclusions are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452217
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Regional deprivation and populism : evidence from Germany and the U.S.
Bayerlein, Michael - 2022
A widely held view is that increasing globalisation and inequality are fostering support for populist actors … introduce the concept of spatial inequality, which describes the regional inequality within countries, and construct a measure … of public goods scarcity. I argue that the spatial inequality induced feeling of being left behind is positively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013336271
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Fair and efficient taxation under partial control: Theory and evidence
Ooghe, Erwin; Peichl, Andreas - 2011
There is clear evidence that fairness plays a role in redistribution. Individuals want to compensate others for their misfortune, while they allow them to enjoy the fruits of their effort. This paper introduces fairness in a tax-benefit scheme that is based on several characteristics in order to...
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