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tax schemes that alleviate poverty. To avoid conflict with individual well-being, we require redistribution to take place … between agents on both sides of the poverty line provided they have the same labor time. This requirement is combined with … yields the following evaluation criterion: tax schemes should minimize the labor time required to reach the poverty line. We …
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To what extent do income taxation systems decrease poverty? We raise this question under the assumption that well …
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paper, we utilize Consumption Dominance curve techniques to analyse the impact of marginal indirect tax changes on poverty … marginal tax changes which will reduce poverty for some selected commodities over a broad class of poverty measures and poverty …
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poverty despite striking reductions in absolute poverty. The effects of relative deprivation explain why average happiness has …
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poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the … standard poverty indexes. It is argued that negative and zero incomes cannot be treated equally in terms of household well …-being and that standard methods used by practitioners fail to recognize this fact likely resulting in overestimations of poverty. …
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The aim of the article is to assess the impact of taxes on poverty and inequality in Ukraine and provide … recommendations on how taxation should be used to address problems of inequality and poverty. The research methodology is based on a … taxation and social spending on inequality and poverty in individual countries. The dataset consists of data from the World …
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The purpose of this paper is to introduce and adopt a generalised version of Roemer's (1998) Equality of Opportunity (EOp) framework, which we call extended EOp, for analysing second-best optimal income taxation. Unlike the pure EOp criterion of Roemer (1998) the extended EOp criterion allows...
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This milestone presents a pool of available indicators and indicator systems which go beyond the narrow concepts of national economic accounts as well as a structuring of the indicators and indices according to central areas of well-being. The milestone builds the basis for Task 202.2, where a...
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This article analyzes the behavioral effects of cash transfer programs when jobless people need to have access to a minimum consumption level. Our model reconciles recent evidence about negligible or favorable effects of cash transfers on job-finding rates and the more standard view of negative...
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