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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...
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Distributional Effects of Optimal Commodity Taxes Combined with Minimum Income Programs in Brazil
Barbosa, Ana Luiza Neves de Holanda; Fiuza, Eduardo P. S.; … - 2003
redistribution. In fact, Brazilian income inequity is one of the highest in the world: the wealthiest 1% of population, equivalent to … would be useful as redistribution income instrument among households in Brazil. These results can provide some valuable …
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Measuring income redistribution : beyond the proportionality standard
Urban, Ivica - 2017
Traditional analyses of redistributive effects of the tax-benefit system are rooted in the concepts of relative income inequality and proportionality. This observation also applies to decompositions proposed by Kakwani (1977, 1984) and Lambert (1985) that reveal the vertical and horizontal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011627944
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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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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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Inequality and the Demand for Redistribution : Are the Assumptions of the New Growth Theory Valid?
Luebker, Malte - 2006
One prominent strand of the new growth theory has identified the political process as a potential channel to link high … redistribution, (2) which leads to greater redistribution and higher taxes, (3) which is in turn harmful to growth. This article … the idea that public support for redistribution rises with inequality across countries. This finding is attributed to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014059390
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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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Inequality and Poverty in India : Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic and Policy Response
Arbatli, Elif C.; Coppo, Mattia; Khalil, Nasser; … - 2023
Using microdata from nationally representative household and labor force surveys, we study the impact and drivers of poverty and inequality in India during the pandemic. We have three main findings. First, India has made significant progress in reducing poverty in recent decades, but the...
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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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