We examine theoretically and empirically social interactions in labor markets and how policy prescriptions can change dramatically when there are social interactions present. Spillover effects increase labor supply and conformity effects make labor supply perfectly inelastic at a reference group...

This paper applies an extended Lorenz dominance welfare principle to make and compare estimates of the overall progressivity of taxes and transfers for Australia, Canada, Sweden, and the U.S.

Uses LIS microdata to construct Lorenz-type curves in order to make ordinal comparisons of tax two types of progressivity 'residual' and 'liability'. This analysis is applied to investigate the redistributive effect of direct taxes in six countries.