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Optimal taxation under different concepts of justness
Jessen, Robin; Metzing, Maria; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2017
A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfarist social welfare function with weights decreasing with income. However, high transfer withdrawal rates in many countries imply very low weights for the working poor in practice. We reconcile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011721431
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A class of proximity-sensitive measures of relative deprivation
Stark, Oded; Bielawski, Jakub; Falniowski, Fryderyk - 2017
We introduce a new class of generalized measures of relative deprivation. The class takes the form of a power mean of order p . A characteristic of the class is that depending on the value of the proximity-sensitive parameter p , the class is capable of accommodating both a decreasing weight...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011736612
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Optimal taxation under different concepts of justness
Jessen, Robin; Metzing, Maria; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2017
A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfarist social welfare function with weights decreasing with income. However, high transfer withdrawal rates in many countries imply very low weights for the working poor in practice. We reconcile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011791708
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Optimal taxation under different concepts of justness
Jessen, Robin; Metzing, Maria; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2018
A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfarist social welfare function with weights decreasing with income. However, high transfer withdrawal rates in many countries imply very low weights for the working poor in practice. We extend the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011897232
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Should Income Inequality Be Praised? Multiple Public Goods Provision, Income Distribution and Social Welfare
Itaya, Jun-ichi - 2017
voluntarily supplied public goods; specifically, we show that not only an income inequality-raising redistribution policy but also … allowed, an inequality-raising redistribution policy is no longer effective and leaves social welfare unchanged …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965708
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Optimal taxation under different concepts of justness
Jessen, Robin; Metzing, Maria; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2017
A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfarist social welfare function with weights decreasing with income. However, high transfer withdrawal rates in many countries imply very low weights for the working poor in practice. We reconcile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011729171
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Inequality, Redistribution, and the Individualism-Collectivism Dimension of Culture
Binder, Carola - 2017
This paper examines the relationship between culture and redistribution, focusing on the individualism … redistribution and lower levels of after-tax income inequality. This finding also holds when using instruments for individualism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966697
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Distributional Change, Reference Groups and the Measurement of Relative Deprivation
Silber, Jacques; Verme, Paolo - 2009
This paper attempts to explicitly integrate the idea of reference group when measuring relative deprivation. It assumes that in assessing her situation in society an individual compares herself with individuals whose environment can be considered as being similar to hers. By environment we mean...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014202779
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Inequality, Redistribution, and Economic Growth
Zweimüller, Josef - 2004
This paper provides a critical review of the recent literature on inequality and growth. After discussing historical and more recent distributional trends as well as empirical evidence on the relationship between inequality and growth, I focus on recent explanations of the inequality-growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014155246
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The effects of economic globalisation and ethnic fractionalisation on redistribution
Pleninger, Regina; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2019
We examine the effect of economic globalisation on income redistribution and hypothesise that it depends on ethnic … jure financial globalisation on redistribution. In particular, the total effect of de jure financial globalisation on … redistribution is negative in highly fractionalised countries. Governments in these countries are apparently not only reluctant to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130069