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Inequality Measurement and Tax/Transfer Policy
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2020
We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle in-come...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269448
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Inequality Measurement and Tax/Transfer Policy
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2020
We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270004
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Inequality measurement and tax/transfer policy
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2020
We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle in-come...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012231585
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Inequality measurement and tax/transfer policy
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2020
We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012232795
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Welfare analysis and redistributive policies
Bargain, Olivier - 2017
a function - typically inequality or poverty indices - of household equivalized income. In parallel, economic research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011751671
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Equivalence scales and consumption inequality: a study of household consumption patterns in italy
Michelini, Claudio - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 1999
This paper utilises unit record survey data on expenditures and incomes of Italianhouseholds of different demographic profiles to estimate consumption equivalence scales whichmeasure the relative levels of spending required by households of different composition to attain givenlevels of utility....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005007333
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How important are the unit of analysis and equivalence scales when measuring income poverty and inequality? : evidence from Ireland
Regan, Mark; Kakoulidou, Theano - 2022
-units) on inequality and poverty statistics using Irish microdata. We find that benchmark equivalence scales result in … substantial variation in the degree of income poverty estimated at the household level, particularly for young children and the … children, Irish income poverty rates in 2019 ranged from 15.0 per cent to 19.5 per cent - most of this variation is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040653
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Tax Progressivity and Top Incomes: Evidence from Tax Reforms
Rubolino, Enrico; Waldenström, Daniel - 2017
We study the link between tax progressivity and top income shares. Using variation from large-scale Western tax reforms in the 1980s and 1990s and the novel synthetic control method, we find large and lasting boosting impacts on top income shares from the progressivity reductions. Effects are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653394
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Relational contracts, taxation and the household
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2009
utility distribution, and then apply the model to examine the effects of a move from joint to individual taxation. We show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269303
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Saving social security
Lane, Edward - 2024
For more than 25 years, the Social Security Trust Fund has been projected to run out of money in 2033 (give or take a few years), potentially causing benefits to be severely reduced in the absence of corrective legislative action. Today (February 2024), projections are made by the Social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014581826