We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to …

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to … tax policy effect aggravated income inequality by increasing the income share of the top 20% in contrast to the middle … class' share. The tax policy effect accounts for up to 29% of the total change in inequality; its contribution increases up …

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method allowing us to … inequality by increasing the income share of the top 20% in contrast to the middle class' share. The tax policy effect accounts … for up to 29% of the total change in inequality; its contribution increases up to 41% if we take into account behavioral …

helps to understand the high levels of inequality. The contemporary fiscal version of that assertion goes something like … 'the rich are powerful and they dont like taxes, hence we have little taxation and little redistribution.' That is a good … taxation and non-negligible redistributive efforts. But in some of those cases such redistribution comes hand in hand with …

helps to understand the high levels of inequality. The contemporary fiscal version of that assertion goes something like … “the rich are powerful and they dont like taxes, hence we have little taxation and little redistribution.” That is a good … taxation and non-negligible redistributive efforts. But in some of those cases such redistribution comes hand in hand with …

inequality induces more government redistribution; (2) more government redistribution is financed by higher distortionary … inequality-growth transmission channel they propose, must therefore be assessed as overly simplistic and inadequate with respect …

according to which (1) rising inequality induces more government redistribution; (2) more government redistribution is financed …, as well as the specific inequality-growth transmission channel they propose, must therefore be assessed as overly …

inequality induces more government redistribution; (2) more government redistribution is financed by higher distortionary … inequality-growth transmission channel they propose, must therefore be assessed as overly simplistic and inadequate with respect …

fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for redistribution. Whereas within group inequality increases support for … redistribution, inequality between groups has the opposite effect. All these results hold even if a poor group is in majority. Using … increases and between race inequality decreases redistribution. …