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Kuchler, Andreas; Renkin, Tobias; Weissert, Christoffer … - 2023

We analyse differences in inflation rates between poor and rich households that arise from heterogeneity in household consumption baskets. Over the 1996 – 2020 period, inflation differences by income are small. From 2020 on, inflation has been about 3pp higher at the bottom of the income...

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The Italian Treasury Dynamic Microsimulation Model (T-DYMM) : data, structure and baseline results

Conti, Riccardo; Bavaro, Michele; Boscolo, Stefano; … - 2023

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Measuring poverty in Italy : how the AD-HBS dataset can offer new insights

Aprea, Massimo; Battles, Susan; Gallo, Giovanni; … - 2023

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Education expansion and income inequality : empirical evidence from China

Hu, Xiaoshan; Wan, Guanghua; Zuo, Congmin - 2023

Education has long been perceived as a great equalizer, but even with universal rises in schooling years, income distribution worsened world-wide. We propose a method for decomposing the contribution of a variable to the change in inequality into mean, dispersion, and price components. The...

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The quest for the holy grail : efficient and equitable fiscal consolidation in India

Abdallah, Chadi; Coady, David P.; Gupta, Sanjeev; … - 2015

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Broadband Internet and Income Inequality

Houngbonon, Georges V.; Liang, Julienne - In: Review of Network Economics 20 (2021) 2, pp. 55-99

Abstract Digital technologies like the Internet can affect income inequality through increased demand for employment in manual and abstract jobs and reduced demand for employment in routine jobs. In this paper, we combine city-level income distribution and jobs data with broadband data from...

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Do Rising Top Income Shares Affect the Incomes or Earnings of Low and Middle-Income Families?

Thompson, Jeffrey P.; Leight, Elias - In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 12 (2012) 1

Abstract This paper uses US state panel data to explore the relationship between the share of income received by affluent households and the level of income and earnings received by low and middle-income families. A rising top share of income can potentially lead to increases in the incomes of...

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The Evolution of Household Income Volatility

Dynan, Karen; Elmendorf, Douglas; Sichel, Daniel - In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 12 (2012) 2

percent in the early 2000s before retreating to 10 percent in the run-up to the Great Recession. Households’ labor earnings …

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Optimal Origin-based Commodity Taxation in a Small Open Economy

Arachi, Giampaolo - In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 7 (2007) 1

-selection constraints that bind the non-linear tax. Rather surprisingly, the value judgements embedded in the social welfare functional do …-based commodity taxes falls on the two types of labour. When a non-linear tax is levied on labour income, origin-based taxes cannot … directly improve income distribution as the two types of labour face different marginal tax rates. However, the government can …

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Education, Growth, and Redistribution in the Presence of Capital Flight

Chakrabarty, Debajyoti; Chanda, Areendam; Ghate, Chetan - In: Topics in Macroeconomics 6 (2006) 2

We construct an overlapping generations model to study the effect of capital controls on human capital investments and the incidence of redistributive taxation in a growing economy. We argue that the conventional wisdom linking higher capital controls to lower growth is reproduced only when an...

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