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Leyen, Kaja von der - 2012

Poor growth performance over the past decades in Europe has increased concerns for rising income dispersion and social exclusion. European authorities have recently launched the Europe 2020 strategy which aims to improve social inclusion in Europe on top of already existing European regional...

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Redistributive policies in general equilibrium

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs; … - 2021

We develop a general equilibrium OLG model to evaluate a wide menu of popular redistributive policies in a unified context. We work in two steps: First, we study how initial conditions in human and financial capital, as inherited from family background, shape individuals' human capital, and...

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Change and convergence of income distributions in European Union during 2007-2014

Cseres-Gergely, Zsombor; Kvedaras, Virmantas - 2019

Mainstream monitoring of income dynamics and inequality is based on summary measures that can miss important phenomena prevalent in income distributions. Relying on quantile functions and the adapted statistical framework suggested by Székely and Rizzo (2004), we characterize the change and...

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Evaluating options for shifting tax burden to top income earners

Onrubia, Jorge; Picos, Fidel; Rodado, María del Carmen - 2016

During the last decade, research on income inequality has paid special attention to top income earners. At the same time, top marginal tax rates on upper income earners have declined sharply in many OECD countries. Discussions are still open on the relationship between the increase of the income...

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The distribution of the growth dividends

Hermansen, Mikkel; Ruiz, Nicolas; Causa, Orsetta - 2016

before or after government redistribution, that is, inequality in market incomes, i.e. income derived before taxes and … to have contributed to rising market income inequality, while this was partly mitigated through government redistribution …

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Trends in Income Inequality and its Impact on Economic Growth

Cingano, Federico - 2014

growth. The paper also evaluates the “human capital accumulation theory” finding evidence for human capital as a channel …. Redistribution policies via taxes and transfers are a key tool to ensure the benefits of growth are more broadly distributed and the …

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The tax structure of an economy in crisis : Greece 2009-2017

Leventi, Chrysa; Picos, Fidel - 2019

one of 2011 being designed to have the largest fiscal gains. The latter also strengthened redistribution and achieved the …

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What do household surveys suggest about the top 1 % incomes and inequality in OECD countries?

Ruiz, Nicolas; Woloszko, Nicolas - 2016

Standard income inequality figures, based on official household survey statistics covering most of the population, report a steady rise of inequality across a majority of advanced countries. The usefulness of these data sources in providing a timely and internationally comparable picture of...

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An empirical investigation on the drivers of income redistribution across OECD countries

Causa, Orsetta; Vindics, Anna; Akgun, Oguzhan - 2018

This paper provides an empirical investigation on the drivers of tax and transfer income redistribution to working …. The analytical approach is based on a reduced-form model of income redistribution which is estimated through cross …-country-time series regressions. The baseline model builds on the political economy literature of income redistribution and includes a set …

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Strengthening social cohesion in Luxembourg : making efficiency and equity go hand in hand

Fournier, Jean-Marc; García, Clara - 2013

Luxembourg is a rich and fast-growing country. However, inequality of disposable incomes has trended up modestly over the past decades and relative poverty has risen reflecting mainly the rapid growth of high incomes. The relatively high inequality of market incomes is substantially reduced by...

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