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The Redistributive Aspects of ELIE: a simulationapproach

Lubrano, Michel - HAL - 2008

This paper analyses the problems linked to the implementation of the Equal Labour Income Equalisation (ELIE) scheme proposed by Kolm (2005). It successively studies the influence of uncertainty in the knowledge of individual incomes, the impact of equivalence scales and finally the consequences...

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Taxation and Income Distribution Dynamics in a Neoclassical Growth Model

Garcìa-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Turnovsky, Stephen J. - HAL - 2008

We examine how changes in tax policies affect the dynamics of the distributions of wealth and income in a Ramsey model … determining inequality, as tax changes that affect hours of work will affect the distribution of wealth and income, reinforcing or … offsetting the direct redistributive impact of taxes. Our results indicate that tax policies that reduce the labor supply are …

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Inference on Income Distributions

Davidson, Russell - HAL - 2010

This paper attempts to provide a synthetic view of varied techniques available for per- forming inference on income distributions. Two main approaches can be distinguished: one in which the object of interest is some index of income inequality or poverty, the other based on notions of stochastic...

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Trade-Induced Changes in Economic Inequality: Assessment Issues and Policy Implications for Developing Countries.

Chabe-Ferret, Sylvain; Gourdon, Julien; Marouani, … - Université Paris-Dauphine - 2009

Nous dressons dans ce papier un bilan de la littérature sur le lien empirique entre libéralisation commerciale et développement selon trois acceptions différentes du « développement » et de l’impératif de justice que ce terme sous-entend dans les négociations à l’OMC. Rebaptisé «...

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Trade-Induced Changes in Economic Inequality: Assessment Issues and Policy Implications for Developing Countries

Chabe-Ferret, Sylvain; Gourdon, Julien; Marouani, … - HAL - 2011

The starting point of this paper is given by country situations where trade liberalization is expected to be poverty and inequality alleviating in the long run while inducing a short run increase in poverty or in inequality. The question we ask is what are the distributive aspects of trade which...

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Openness, Inequality, and Poverty: Endowments Matter

Gourdon, Julien; Maystre, Nicolas; De, Jaime Melo - HAL - 2011

Using tariffs as a measure of openness, this paper finds consistent evidence that the conditional effects of trade liberalization on inequality are correlated with relative factor endowments. Trade liberalization, measured by changes in tariff revenues, is associated with increases in inequality...

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Openness and Inequality in Developing Countries: a New Look at the Evidence

Gourdon, Julien - HAL - 2011

Integration to world markets is expected to help developing countries to access prosperity. At the same time, increasing opportunities to trade are likely to affect income distribution and whether or not increasing openness to trade is accompanied by a reduction or an increase inequality is...

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A Resource-Based Approach to the Modeling and Simulation of Income Distribution: The Case of Pakistan

Qureshi, Muhammad Azeem; Pedercini, Matteo - In: Journal of Income Distribution 19 (2010) 3-4, pp. 65-87

that public investment in education and micro-credit, financed by a modest increase in income tax for the high …

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A closer look at financial development and income distribution

Gimet, Céline; Lagoarde-Segot, Thomas - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2011

This paper analyzes the under-investigated relationship uniting financial development and income distribution. We use a novel approach taking into account for the first time the specific channels linking banks, capital markets and income inequality, the time-varying nature of the relationship,...

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Managerial versus Production Wages: Offshoring, Country Size and Endowments

Benz, Sebastian; Kohler, Wilhelm - CESifo - 2010

In this paper, we explore the role of trade in differentiated final goods as well offshoring of tasks for inequality both within and between countries. We emphasize the distinction between managerial and production labor. Production labor is assumed to be a variable input composed of tradable...

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