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Crisis, response and distributional impact : the case of Ireland
Callan, Tim; Nolan, Brian; Keane, Claire; Savage, Michael; … - 2013
Ireland is one of the countries most severely affected by the Great Recession. National income fell by more than 10 per … crisis, and deep fiscal adjustment. This paper examines the income distribution consequences of the recession, and identifies … per cent between 2008 and 2011, but the greatest losses were strongly concentrated on the bottom and top deciles. Tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009765520
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Crisis, Response and Distributional Impact: The Case of Ireland
Callan, Tim; Nolan, Brian; Keane, Claire; Savage, Michael; … - 2013
Ireland is one of the countries most severely affected by the Great Recession. National income fell by more than 10 per … crisis, and deep fiscal adjustment. This paper examines the income distribution consequences of the recession, and identifies … per cent between 2008 and 2011, but the greatest losses were strongly concentrated on the bottom and top deciles. Tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319441
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Income Distribution And Rent Seeking Costs: A Note
Antonelli, Maria Alessandra - In: Annals of the University of Petrosani, Economics 10 (2010) 3, pp. 5-12
This paper analyzes a rent seeking competition where risk neutral agents have a different income. The individual income is private information but the income distribution is common information. Like the Hillman and Samet (1987) model the individual outlays in rent seeking is equal to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008853298
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A Contribution to the Positive Theory of Direct Taxation
Emanuele, Canegrati - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper I analyse a probabilistic voting model where political candidates choose a direct taxation policy to maximise the probability of winning elections. Society is divided into groups which have di¤erent preferences for consumption of leisure or, in other words, are di¤erently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619343
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The political economy of the standard level of services : the role of income distribution
Fiorillo, Fabio; Sacchi, Agnese - 2012
The theory of fiscal federalism points out that decentralisation should be pursued in order to fit differences in individual preferences. However, the presence of externalities and the need of providing merit goods to citizens suggest that centralisation is likely to produce more efficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009489053
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Distributional effects of reducing energy subsidies : evidence from recent policy reform in Argentina
Giuliano, Fernando; Ana Lugo, Maria; Masut, Ariel; … - 2020
We analyze the distributional effects of the reduction in energy subsidies in Argentina since 2016. As the policy reform also includes the introduction of a scheme to protect less well-off families (social tariff), we also review how well the targeting mechanism works. We apply traditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265972
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The Political Economy of the Standard Level of Services : The Role of Income Distribution
Fiorillo, Fabio - 2012
The theory of fiscal federalism points out that decentralization should be pursued in order to fit differences in individual preferences. However, the presence of externalities and the need of providing merit goods to citizens suggest that centralization is likely to produce more efficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112533
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Crisis, Response and Distributional Impact : The Case of Ireland
Callan, Tim - 2013
Ireland is one of the countries most severely affected by the Great Recession. National income fell by more than 10 per … crisis, and deep fiscal adjustment. This paper examines the income distribution consequences of the recession, and identifies … per cent between 2008 and 2011, but the greatest losses were strongly concentrated on the bottom and top deciles. Tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079158
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Confronting the Endogeneity of Economy, Policy, and Politics : Inequality & Unemployment, Redistribution & Social Insurance, and Political Participation
Franzese, Robert J.; Hays, Jude C. - 2014
Conflicts of interest over the generosity and structure of redistribution and social insurance (jointly: social policy) include that between the relatively poor and wealthy - which yields the familiar result that median-voter demand for broad redistribution increases in the income skew - and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014219906
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An Unconditional Basic Income in the Family Context - Labor Supply and Distributional Effects
Horstschräer, Julia - 2011
In this paper we estimate the effects of an unconditional basic income on labor supply and income distribution with a special focus on the incentives to work in the family context. An unconditional basic income guarantees every citizen a minimum income without any means-testing. We simulate a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131539