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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 … exogenous characteristics like their genetic endowment. -- fairness ; redistribution ; tax-benefit schemes ; tagging ; optimal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230790
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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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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 have the opposite effect. All these results hold even if a poor group is in majority. Using … increases and between group inequality decreases redistribution. …
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Uneven Treatment of Family Life? Horizontal Equity in the U.S. Tax and Transfer System
Eichfelder, Sebastian - 2012
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The Role of Expressive Versus Instrumental Preferences in U.S. Attitudes Toward Taxation and Redistribution
Stark, Kirk J. - 2015
Polling data suggest that Americans are concerned about rising economic inequality, yet the same polls reveal popular opposition to redistributive tax policies that would help mitigate inequality. Numerous commentators have drawn attention to this paradox, attempting to explain why voters would...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011340
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The Politics of Widening Income Inequality in the United States, 1977 to 2014
Shapiro, Robert J. - 2018
path of that redistribution. There was no statistically significant association between party control of either branch of … government and the path of redistribution of national income on a pre-tax basis, suggesting that economic factors drove pre …-tax redistribution. However, there were strong associations between party control and the path of redistribution of post-tax income. When …
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A fresh look at fiscal redistribution and inequality in the US across electoral cycles
Sala, Hector - 2018
which this ratio increases coincide with those in which Democrats rule the government and there is more redistribution from … the power are characterized by a fall in the ratio and less redistribution from the rich to the rest of the population …
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The Effect of Inequality on Redistribution : An Econometric Analysis
Boskin, Michael J.; Elnahal, Kareem; Zhang, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
redistribution and a modest effect of two year led inequality …
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Observations from the U.S. Federal Income Tax to Distinguish Between Measures of Progressivity and Redistributive Capacity
Mathews, Timothy - 2016
This study provides insights on the attributes of a tax that are measured by two different classes of progressivity indices – those defined by Kakwani (1977), Suits (1977), Stroup (2005), and Mathews (2016) and those defined by Musgrave & Thin (1948) and Reynolds & Smolensky (1977). Index...
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How mindless is standard economics really?
Schipper, Burkhard - 2009
Contrary to claims by Gul and Pesendorfer (2008), I show that standard economics makes use of non-choice evidence in a meaningful way. This is because standard economics solely grounded in the theory of choice is "incomplete". That is, it has content that can not be revealed with any general...
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