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The impact of the tax system structure on the narrowing of income disparities in OECD countries

Mazurek-Chwiejczak, Małgorzata - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 12 (2016) 3, pp. 27-37

Social disparities have a common and consistent character in the vast majority of contemporary countries. The level of income inequality in OECD countries has grown in the past 30 years and is still rising. Taxes and tax systems, aside from social transfers, are fiscal instruments widely used in...

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Is it the income distribution or redistribution that affects growth?

Thewissen, Stefan - In: Socio-economic review 12 (2014) 3, pp. 545-571

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Adult learning, economic growth and the distribution of income

Stauvermann, Peter; Kumar, Ronald Ravinesh - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-12

Technological change causes three consequences: it guarantees economic growth, it requires employees to acquire more skills and human capital, and it increases inequality if employees are not capable adapting to new technologies. The second consequence makes it almost necessary for employees to...

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Reducing income inequality while boosting economic growth : can it be done? ; evidence from OECD countries

Höller, Peter; Joumard, Isabelle; Koske, Isabell - In: The Singapore economic review : journal of the Economic … 59 (2014) 1, pp. 1-22

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Shifting tax burden to top income earners : what is the best way to reduce inequality?

Onrubia, Jorge; Picos, Fidel; Rodado, María del Carmen - 2019

The authors analyze to what extent and how the tax burden should be shifted towards top income earners in order to reduce income inequality. Starting from Lambert and Aronson (Inequality decomposition analysis and the Gini coefficient revisited 1993) and Alvaredo (A note on the relationship...

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A politico-economic model of public expenditure and income taxation

Mayoral, Laura; Esteban Marquillas, Joan María - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 10 (2019) 3/4, pp. 479-507

This paper contributes to the literature on majority voting over fiscal policies. We depart from the standard model in two dimensions. First, besides redistributing income, the government uses the net tax revenue to finance the provision of goods and services that become in-kind transfers to the...

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Can the structure of inequality explain fiscal redistribution? : revisiting the social affinity hypothesis

Lübker, Malte - In: Socio-economic review 19 (2021) 2, pp. 735-763

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Could/should Jubilee debt cancellations be reintroduced today? If not, what alternative measures of debt relief and redistribution might be possible?

Hudson, Michael; Goodhart, Charles A. E. - 2018

In this paper the authors recall the history of Jubilee debt cancellations, emphasizing what their social purpose was at that time. They note that it would not be possible to copy that procedure exactly nowadays, primarily because most debt/credit relationships are intermediated via financial...

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Risk aversion and other factors determine income redistribution preferences

Gärtner, Manja; Mollerstrom, Johanna - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 17/18, pp. 151-156

The amount of redistribution people favor depends on socioeconomic factors and their views on fairness. This study … less redistribution, women are more in favor of redistribution than men on average, and older people favor it more than … more redistribution than people who are more prone to taking risks. The results help us understand which policies are …

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Income inequality in the Nordics from an OECD perspective

Pareliussen, Jon Kristian; Hermansen, Mikkel Nørlem; … - In: Nordic economic policy review (2018), pp. 17-57

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