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In recent years, policymakers across the globe have become increasingly interested in not only the revenue consequences of tax policies but also their distributional impacts: that is, their impacts on different segments of the population. Such evidence can promote a more equitable and...
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The recent surge in inflation, driven by spectacular increases in energy prices, has driven sharp falls in household living standards, huge government intervention to try to mitigate it, and serious policy headaches. As such it continues to be the backdrop behind many of the most pressing issues...
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We test for different theories purporting to explain cross-country differences in income redistribution through standardized experimental choices. US Americans and Italians demand less redistribution than Norwegians and Germans, regardless of whether self-interest is relevant. Those earning (or...
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We explore the relationship between political and economic inequality in the UK. …
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This chapter investigates the relationship between immigration and inequality in the UK over the past 40 years. This is … the impact immigration had on wage inequality in the UK through two channels: the first is the effect on the earnings … very small. We decompose wage inequality into inequality within the immigrant and native groups and inequality between the …
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