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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth
Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006
This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic … voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory concentrates on lump-sum voluntary transfers, individual or collective … altruistic transfers by Pareto-efficient public redistribution. The chapter is organized as follows. Section 2 presents an …
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Redistribution policy and offshoring in general equilibrium
Kohl, Miriam; Naumann, Fabrice - 2021
We look at the effect of domestic redistribution policy on offshoring in an asymmetric two country model of … monopolistic competition, heterogeneous firms and occupational choice. The redistribution scheme is modeled by a combination of a … progressive income tax and a lump-sum transfer. We find that the redistribution scheme lowers the degree of globalization measured …
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Other-Regarding Preferences and Redistributive Politics
Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2022
Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the … national plebiscites, to study the link between other-regarding preferences and support for redistribution in a broad sample of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083850
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Other-Regarding Preferences and Redistributive Politics
Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2022
Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the … national plebiscites, to study the link between other-regarding preferences and support for redistribution in a broad sample of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013306855
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Redistributive effect and the progressivity of taxes and benefits : evidence for the UK, 1977–2018
Herault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2021
We apply the Kakwani approach to decomposing redistributive effect into average rate, progressivity, and reranking components using yearly UK data covering 1977–2018. We examine cash and in-kind benefits, and direct and indirect taxes. In addition, we highlight an empirical implementation...
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Beliefs about inequality and the nature of support for redistribution
Henkel, Aljosha; Fehr, Ernst; Senn, Julien; Epper, Thomas - 2024
inequality for support for redistribution? We study these questions in a staggered experiment with a representative sample of the … redistribution. These results hide, however, important heterogeneity because the effects of beliefs about inequality for demand for … redistribution are preference-dependent: only affluent inequality averse individuals, but not the selfish and altruistic ones …
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Exploring options to deepen and broaden the personal income tax base in South Africa
Wright, Gemma Clare; Gasior, Katrin; Ollonqvist, Joonas; … - 2023
In this paper we explore options for augmenting South Africa's personal income tax revenue using two microsimulation models: PITMOD simulates the personal income tax system and is underpinned by a dataset comprising a full extract of anonymized individual-level administrative tax data; and SAMOD...
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Evaluating the impact of the 2023-2024 personal income tax reform in Rwanda : an analysis using tax-benefit microsimulation modelling
Mahieu, Antoine de; Lastunen, Jesse; Mukangango, Jeannette - 2023
Establishing an equitable and efficient tax system is essential for reducing poverty, combating inequality, and fostering sustainable economic growth. Rwanda's government has recognized this and implemented significant changes to the personal income tax schedule for 2023 and 2024 as part of...
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Mobility, Taxation and Welfare
Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Araar, Abdelkrim - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
Income mobility is often thought to equalize permanent incomes and thereby to improvesocial welfare. The welfare analysis of mobility often fails, however, to account for the cost ofthe variability of periodic incomes around permanent incomes. This paper assesses the netwelfare benefit of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360515
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Income redistribution through taxes and transfers across OECD countries
Causa, Orsetta; Hermansen, Mikkel Nørlem - 2018
This paper produces a comprehensive assessment of income redistribution to the working-age population, covering OECD … countries over the last two decades. Redistribution is quantified as the relative reduction in market income inequality achieved … overall redistribution, the respective role of various categories of transfers for transfer redistribution; as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011870048