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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
reduce income inequality. Starting from Lambert and Aronson (Inequality decomposition analysis and the Gini coefficient …
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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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Risikobereitschaft und weitere Faktoren korrelieren mit Umverteilungspräferenzen
Gärtner, Manja; Mollerstrom, Johanna - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 85 (2018) 18, pp. 393-398
Wie viel Umverteilung Bürgerinnen und Bürger in der Gesellschaft möchten, hängt von sozioökonomischen Faktoren und ihren Ansichten über Gerechtigkeit ab. Diese Studie, basierend auf einer in Schweden durchgeführten, repräsentativen Umfrage, bestätigt frühere Ergebnisse: Demnach nimmt...
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Going green and (un)equal? : political coalitions, redistribution, and the environment
Gatti, Donatella - In: Economic modelling 116 (2022), pp. 1-10
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Reduction of income inequality and subjective well-being in Europe
Hajdu, Tamás; Hajdu, Gábor - 2014
association of reduction of income inequality by governmental taxes and transfers (redistribution) with subjective well … its reduction, their results might indicate that not only the outcome (inequality), but also the procedure (redistribution …-being. Their results provide evidence that people in Europe are negatively affected by income inequality, whereas reduction of …
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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
income inequality in OECD countries has grown in the past 30 years and is still rising. Taxes and tax systems, aside from …
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Social status, preferences for redistribution and optimal taxation : a survey
Gallice, Andrea - 2018
redistribution and impact the design of optimal tax policies. He focuses on two aspects: the relevant dimension over which relative …
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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
inequality interacted with the elasticity of substitution of the goods provided in the market and those publicly provided. This …
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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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Tax policy reform and universal basic income effectiveness in a currency union : implications for long-term growth, inequality, and welfare
Kame Babilla, Thierry U. - In: Journal of government and economics : JGE 10 (2023), pp. 1-15
-term growth and welfare in a currency union that faces fiscal rule constraints and inequality. To address this ongoing government …, inequality, and welfare depends on the type of fiscal policy adopted by government to fund it, notably the trade-off between … completely eliminating oil subsidies appears to be the best policy for reducing inequality while increasing growth and welfare …
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