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The redistributive effect and progressivity of taxes revisited : an international comparison across the European Union

Verbist, Gerlinde; Figari, Francesco - 2014

and redistribution through taxes. Second we hereby test whether there is a relationship between progressivity and the …

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Income redistribution in the European Union

Avram, Silvia; Levy, Horacio; Sutherland, Holly - 2014

The systems of direct taxes and cash benefits in the 27 Member States of the European Union (EU) vary considerably in size and structure. We explore their redistributive effects using EUROMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the EU. As well as describing redistributive effects in...

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Critical remarks on Piketty’s ’Capital in the twenty-first century’

Homburg, Stefan - 2014

This paper is about “Capital in the Twenty-first Century” by Thomas Piketty. It identifies his central macroeconomic claims and examines them, arguing that the contentions are theoretically and empirically unwarranted.

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Microsimulation of impacts of tax and transfer in Viet Nam : feasibility study

Nguyen, Duong Anh; Minh Binh Tran; Anh Mai Le - 2016

This paper assesses the feasibility of simulating the distributional impacts produced by various tax and transfer instruments in Viet Nam. Viet Nam's system of tax and transfer policies underwent frequent changes, in terms of diversity and adjustment scope. The most important source of data is...

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The economics of taxing net wealth : a survey of the issues

Schnellenbach, Jan - 2012

tax ; wealth ; inequality ; redistribution …

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The fiscal and distributional impact of possible tax reforms in the Netherlands

Vos, Klaas de - 2012

This paper uses the tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD to assess how three types of tax reform would affect the state budget and the income distribution in the Netherlands. After briefly introducing the Dutch tax system and the case for and against these reforms, we investigate the...

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Equality of Opportunity and Redistribution in Europe

Dunnzlaff, Lina - 2010

The concept of equality of opportunity (EOp) goes back to Roemer (1993, 1998) who argues that a society shall guarantee its members equal access to advantage regardless of their circumstances, while holding them responsible for turning that access into actual advantage by the application of...

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Biased Perceptions of Income Distribution and Preferences for Redistribution : Evidence from a Survey Experiment

Cruces, Guillermo - 2011

agents' biased perceptions with this information has a significant effect on their stated preferences for redistribution … levels of redistribution when informed of their true ranking. This relationship between biased perceptions and political … attitudes provides an alternative explanation for the relatively low degree of redistribution observed in modern democracies …

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How Elastic are Preferences for Redistribution? New Results on Partisan Polarization

Fenton, George - 2020

I show that a stylized fact on the decades-long stability in preferences for income redistribution – which has … substantial support for taxation and redistribution among conservatives. This treatment closes upwards of half the gap in …

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Other-Regarding Preferences and Redistributive Politics

Epper, Thomas - 2020

Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …. Support for redistribution may also be affected by altruistic and egalitarian preferences, but knowledge about the … redistribution in a broad sample of the Swiss population. Based on a recently developed non-parametric clustering procedure, we …

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