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with ten to forty years of observations from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics. We find that neither is strongly …
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involved, we utilized their transformations to population and income quantiles. Altogether, we applied six methods of comparing … for dominance relations under different income distributions. We address it as uniform tax progression for different … income distributions and present the respective approach for both continuous and discrete cases, the latter also being …
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monetary units and different supports of the income distributions involved, we utilized their transformations to population and … have the disadvantage of ignoring the income distribution entirely. Global measures are affected by the drawback of all … progression depend heavily on the assumption that the same income distribution holds for both situations to be compared, which …
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This paper surveys possible motivations for having a net wealth tax. After giving a short overview over the state of wealth taxation in OECD countries, we discuss both popular arguments for such a tax, as well as economic arguments. It is argued that classical normative principles of taxation...
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The present study reports the findings of a survey conducted by the World Values Survey scientists in the United States on the question of whether governments should tax the rich and subsidize the poor. The sample size of 2166 consisted of individuals from all parts of the United States. A...
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We analyze the distributive justice of the combined burden of income taxes, social security taxes and public transfers … evidence for a privileged treatment of families with children and a low market income due to the earned income tax credit (EIC … transfer systems, temporary aid for needy families (TANF) substantially increases the observed privilege for low-income …
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We use a large panel of federal income tax data to investigate intragenerational income mobility in the United States … income taxes stabilize or destabilize post-tax income changes relative to pre-tax changes. We find a relatively high degree … of income mobility, with almost half of workers exhibiting earnings increases or decreases of at least 25 percent, and …
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