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Income inequality in the European Union
Leyen, Kaja von der - 2012
Poor growth performance over the past decades in Europe has increased concerns for rising income dispersion and social exclusion. European authorities have recently launched the Europe 2020 strategy which aims to improve social inclusion in Europe on top of already existing European regional...
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Less Income Inequality and More Growth – Are they Compatible? Part 4. Top Incomes
Hoeller, Peter - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
Over the past decades, top incomes have soared, especially in the English-speaking countries. Despite a considerable amount of research on top income developments, there is still substantial disagreement about the causes for their rapid increase. Potential explanations include changes in...
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Tax-benefit revealed redistributive preferences over time : Ireland 1987 - 2005
Bargain, Olivier; Keane, Claire - 2010
By inverting Saez (2002)'s model of optimal income taxation, we characterize the redistributive preferences of the Irish government between 1987 and 2005. The (marginal) social welfare function revealed by this approach is consistently comparable over time and show great stability despite...
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Tax-Benefit Revealed Redistributive Preferences Over Time : Ireland 1987-2005
Bargain, Olivier - 2010
By inverting Saez (2002)'s model of optimal income taxation, we characterize the redistributive preferences of the Irish government between 1987 and 2005. The (marginal) social welfare function revealed by this approach is consistently comparable over time and show great stability despite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137249
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Chapter 8. Post-1970 Trends in Within-Country Inequality and Poverty : Rich and Middle-Income Countries
Morelli, Salvatore; Smeeding, Timothy; Thompson, Jeffrey - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 593-696). 2015
Like the other chapters in this volume of the Handbook of Income Distribution (and its predecessor), the aim of this chapter is to provide a comprehensive review of a particular area of research. We examine the literature on post-1970 trends in poverty and income inequality, up to 2010 or 2011...
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Shifting tax burden to top income earners : what is the best way to reduce inequality?
Onrubia, Jorge; Picos, Fidel; Rodado, María del Carmen - 2019
reduce income inequality. Starting from Lambert and Aronson (Inequality decomposition analysis and the Gini coefficient … revisited 1993) and Alvaredo (A note on the relationship between top income shares and the Gini coefficient 2011) decomposition …
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Shifting tax burden to top income earners : what is the best way to reduce inequality?
Onrubia, Jorge; Picos, Fidel; Rodado, María del Carmen - 2019
reduce income inequality. Starting from Lambert and Aronson (Inequality decomposition analysis and the Gini coefficient … revisited 1993) and Alvaredo (A note on the relationship between top income shares and the Gini coefficient 2011) decomposition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110760
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Gini Indices and the Redistribution of Income
Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2014
Just as the Gini inequality index captures people's relative deprivation [Yitzhaki (1979)], so, we show in this paper …, Gini-based progressivity and horizontal inequity indices capture individual perceptions of relative fiscal harshness and … and redistribution of income generalise to the family of indices based on the extended Ginis of Donaldson and Weymark …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014191406
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Gini Indices and the Redistribution of Income
Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2014
Just as the Gini inequality index captures people's relative deprivation [Yitzhaki (1979)], so, we show in this paper …, Gini-based progressivity and horizontal inequity indices capture individual perceptions of relative fiscal harshness and … and redistribution of income generalise to the family of indices based on the extended Ginis of Donaldson and Weymark …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014191766
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The redistributive effect and progressivity of taxes revisited : an international comparison across the European Union
Verbist, Gerlinde; Figari, Francesco - 2014
and redistribution through taxes. Second we hereby test whether there is a relationship between progressivity and the …
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