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Properties of Equivalence Scales in Different Countries
Koulovatianos, Christos; Schröder, Carsten; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2005
Recent studies in high-income industrialized countries have shown that equivalence scales are income-dependent. We investigate whether this dependence also holds in poorer, services oriented countries, by considering the example of Cyprus. We also examine whether household economies of scale and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014066684
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Improving Efficiency and Equity of Child-Related Federal Tax Policies
Cherry, Robert - In: Eastern Economic Journal 27 (2001) 3, pp. 309-322
reduced, especially for families that are currently subject to both the federal tax rate and the EITC phase-out rate. It … current situation in which families with incomes between $30,000 and $60,000 receive less child-related benefits than either …
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Inequality Measurement and Tax/Transfer Policy
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2020
We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle in-come...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269448
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Inequality Measurement and Tax/Transfer Policy
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2020
We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270004
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Inequality measurement and tax/transfer policy
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2020
We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle in-come...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012231585
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Inequality measurement and tax/transfer policy
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2020
We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012232795
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Inequality and dynamics of earnings and disposable income in Denmark 1987-2016
Leth-Petersen, Søren; Sæverud, Johan - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1493-1526
We document facts about earnings and disposable income inequality and growth in Denmark in the period 1987-2016. During this period, the distribution of log earnings growth exhibits skewness that varies with the business cycle and has strong excess kurtosis. Denmark has a progressive income tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306276
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Inequality and dynamics of earnings and disposable income in Denmark 1987-2016
Leth-Petersen, Søren; Sæverud, Johan - In: Quantitative Economics 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1493-1526
We document facts about earnings and disposable income inequality and growth in Denmark in the period 1987-2016. During this period, the distribution of log earnings growth exhibits skewness that varies with the business cycle and has strong excess kurtosis. Denmark has a progressive income tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014536855
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Income taxation and household size: would French family splitting make German families better off?
Baclet, Alexandre; Dell, Fabien; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2005
. Actually, low income families with less than three children even fare better in terms of tax relief in Germany than in France … compare effective average tax rates for different household types in France and Germany. Our analysis shows that the popular …In this paper, we address the question whether family support via the income tax system is more generous in France than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267450
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Income Taxation and Household Size: Would French Family Splitting Make German Families Better off?
Baclet, Alexandre; Dell, Fabien; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2005
. Actually, low income families with less than three children even fare better in terms of tax relief in Germany than in France … compare effective average tax rates for different household types in France and Germany. Our analysis shows that the popular …In this paper, we address the question whether family support via the income tax system is more generous in France than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324234