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Tax policy and income inequality in the US, 1979 - 2007
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - 2014
We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method allowing us to … inequality by increasing the income share of the top 20% in contrast to the middle class' share. The tax policy effect accounts … for up to 29% of the total change in inequality; its contribution increases up to 41% if we take into account behavioral …
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The challenges of taxing the big
Tanzi, Vito - In: Revista de economía mundial : REM ; revista de la … 37 (2014), pp. 23-40
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Changes in the distribution of after-tax wealth in the US : has income tax policy increased wealth inequality?
Looney, Adam; Moore, Kevin - In: Fiscal studies : the journal of the Institute for … 37 (2016) 1, pp. 77-104
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What is driving wealth inequality in the United States of America? : the role of productivity, taxation and skills
Ernst, Ekkehard; Langot, François; Merola, Rossana; … - 2024
Out of four major structural changes affecting the US economy - namely a rising share of skilled workers, skill-biased technological change, decreasing progressiveness of taxation and productivity slowdown - we show that the decline in productivity growth not only is the main driver of the...
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Superstars and mediocrities : a solution based on personal income taxation
D'Andria, Diego - 2018 - This version: December 2017
inequality can be due to superstar dynamics or factor complementarities, Terviö ("Superstars and Mediocrities: Market Failure in …The markets for talent often produce large income inequality and therefore raise political attention. While such …
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The spillover effects of top income inequality
Gottlieb, Joshua D.; Hémous, David; Hicks, Jeffrey; … - 2023
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The spillover effects of top income inequality
Gottlieb, Joshua D.; Hémous, David; Hicks, Jeffrey; … - 2023
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Spillovers from tax shocks to the euro area
Mierzwa, Sascha - 2021 - This version: 07 September 2021
I study the spill-over effects of legislated discretionary tax changes in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom to 11 Eurozone countries for the period 1980Q1-2018Q4 employing Local Projections (Jordà, 2005). In general, I find spillovers from US tax legislation to have the...
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Legislative tax announcements and GDP : evidence from the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom
Hayo, Bernd; Mierzwa, Sascha - 2021 - This version: 08 October 2021
We study the announcement effect of legislated tax changes on GDP in the US, Germany, and the UK. Using, as the shock of interest, narratively identified information (Romer & Romer, 2009) about future tax changes at the quarter of their introduction to the legislative body, we analyse the...
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Dividend tax policy and private-sector research and development spending : a modified perspective on the impact of US 2003 Tax Reform Act on R&D spending
Billings, B. Anthony; Lee, Cheol; Lee, Jaegul - In: Advances in taxation 25 (2019), pp. 51-72
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