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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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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508116
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011340
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Income and Earnings Mobility in U.S. Tax Data
Larrimore, Jeff - 2015
We use a large panel of federal income tax data to investigate intragenerational income mobility in the United States. We have two primary objectives. First, we explore the determinants of two-year changes in individual labor earnings and family incomes, such as job or industry changes,...
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Household Income Volatility and Tax Policy : Helping More and Hurting Less, Testimony Before the U.S. Joint Economic Committee
Batchelder, Lily L. - 2010
This testimony makes three main points. First, income volatility, especially when it involves income declines, imposes significant hardships on American families. It heightens stress about finances and may increase household living expenses. These hardships are most pronounced for middle-and...
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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...
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The economics of taxing net wealth : a survey of the issues
Schnellenbach, Jan - 2012
tax ; wealth ; inequality ; redistribution …
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Lower and upper bounds of unfair inequality : theory and evidence for Germany and the US
Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - 2011
Previous estimates of unfair inequality of opportunity (IOp) are only lower bounds because of the unobservability of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009269249
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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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Trends in income inequality, pro-poor income growth and income mobility
Jenkins, Stephen; Van Kerm, Philippe - 2003
We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor in … Western Germany, more so than in the USA, and inequality did not rise as much. …
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