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Does a wealth tax improve equality of opportunity?
Berg, Kristoffer; Hebous, Shafik - 2021
Does parental wealth inequality impact next generation labor income inequality? And does a tax on parental wealth …
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The inheritance and gift tax in Germany reform potentials for tax revenue, efficiency and distribution
Beznoska, Martin; Hentze, Tobias; Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2020
The inheritance tax is often seen as an effective tool to reduce wealth inequality, to raise public budgets if needed … tool for fighting wealth inequality without having distorting effects for the economy. For this purpose, the distributional …
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An assessment of wealth taxes in a joint income-wealth perspective
Kuypers, Sarah; Figari, Francesco; Verbist, Gerlinde - 2020
redistribution. Although they are in most cases strongly progressive, the low redistributive effect is mainly due to their small size …
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Distributional effects of the wealth tax under a lifetime-dynastic income concept
Halvorsen, Elin; Thoresen, Thor Olav - 2017
lifetime income in family dynasties. Using rich Norwegian administrative data, we describe how a lifetime-dynastic income …
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Chapter 4 Historical perspectives on income distribution: The case of Europe
Morrisson, Christian - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 1, (pp. 217-260). 2000
framework, using the Theil indicator, all available information on inequality trends between agricultural and nonagricultural … sectors and on inequality trends within each sector in European countries. Finally Section 3 throws light on the political and …
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Who is at the top? : wealth mobility over the life cycle
Hochgürtel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - 2012
Who is wealthy? This paper presents empirical estimates of household movements into and out of the top percents of the wealth distribution over individual life cycles. There are life-cycle motives and precautionary motives for wealth accumulation. The opportunities to accumulate wealth create...
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Who is at the top? : wealth mobility over the life cycle
Hochgürtel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - 2012
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Income Mobility and Economic Inequality from a Regional Perspective
Prieto-Rodriguez, Juan - 2011
A necessary condition for mobility to reduce the popular desire for redistribution is a significant positive … correlation between inequality and mobility. In Prieto et al. (2008), a significant positive relationship was found at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130023
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Who is at the Top? Wealth Mobility Over the Life Cycle
Hochguertel, Stefan - 2012
Who is wealthy? This paper presents empirical estimates of household movements into and out of the top percents of the wealth distribution over individual life cycles. There are life-cycle motives and precautionary motives for wealth accumulation. The opportunities to accumulate wealth create...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111714
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Critical remarks on Piketty’s ’Capital in the twenty-first century’
Homburg, Stefan - 2014
This paper is about “Capital in the Twenty-first Century” by Thomas Piketty. It identifies his central macroeconomic claims and examines them, arguing that the contentions are theoretically and empirically unwarranted.
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