In this paper, we define a new class of richness measures. In contrast to the often used headcount, these new measures are sensitive to changes in rich persons' income and therefore allow for a more sophisticated analysis of richness. We demonstrate the application of these new measures to...

Based on the earlier work of one of the authors, this paper develops a unified methodology to compare tax progression for dominance relations under different income distributions. We address it as uniform tax progression for different income distributions and present the respective approach for...

In this paper, we define a new class of richness measures. In contrast to the often used headcount, these new measures are sensitive to changes in rich person's income and therefore allow for a more sophisticated analysis of richness. We demonstrate the application of these new measures to...

Mit Beginn des Jahres 2008 ist eine umfassende Unternehmenssteuerreform in Deutschland in Kraft getreten. Sie beinhaltet eine deutliche Senkung der Ertragssteuersätze, gleichzeitig aber auch Maßnahmen, um die Steuerausfälle des Staates zu begrenzen. Insgesamt sinken auf Basis einer...

The conventional approach to comparing tax progression (using local measures, global measures or dominance relations for first moment distribution functions) often lacks applicability to the real world: local measures of tax progression have the disadvantage of ignoring the income distribution...