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We conduct a laboratory experiment to study how demand for redistribution of income depends on self-interest, insurance … motives, and social concerns relating to inequality and efficiency. Our choice environments feature large groups of subjects … and real world framing, and differ with respect to the source of inequality (earned or arbitrary), the cost of taxation to …
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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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We conduct a laboratory experiment to study how demand for redistribution of income depends on self-interest, insurance … motives, and social concerns relating to inequality and efficiency. Our choice environments feature large groups of subjects … and real world framing, and differ with respect to the source of inequality (earned or arbitrary), the cost of taxation to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420263
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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the ceteris paribus effects of the reforms on the state budget and on poverty and inequality. Depending on the choice of … budget deficit may increase or decrease in combination with both increases and decreases in inequality and poverty. So, an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009679063
In this paper we explore South Africa's personal income tax system using two microsimulation models. The first, SAMOD, simulates personal income tax and social benefits using a dataset derived from the nationally representative National Income Dynamics Study survey. The second, PITMOD, simulates...
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inequality in South Africa. Using a static tax-benefit microsimulation model with input datasets that were adjusted to reflect …
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This paper documents methodology underlying the construction of the integrated data base for our study on "Wer trägt die Steuerlast in Deutschland? - Verteilungswirkungen des deutschen Steuer- und Transfersystems" (Who bears the tax burden in Germany? - Distributional Analyses of the German tax...
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by a redistribution within the social insurance funds. Such redistribution, however, contradicts the equivalence … want to redistribute funds in the statutory pension insurance system, they should readjust the redistribution to make it …
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In this paper we explore options for augmenting South Africa's personal income tax revenue using two microsimulation models: PITMOD simulates the personal income tax system and is underpinned by a dataset comprising a full extract of anonymized individual-level administrative tax data; and SAMOD...
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