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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 F. - 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/10012830349
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Inequality Measurement and Tax/Transfer Policy
Apps, Patricia F. - 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/10012831974
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Inequality Measurement and Tax/Transfer Policy
Apps, Patricia F.; 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/10014031920
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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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Optimal Family Taxation and Income Inequality
Apps, Patricia F. - 2017
This paper presents the properties of optimal piecewise linear income tax systems for families based on joint and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963963
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Inequality measurement and tax/transfer policy
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - In: International tax and public finance 29 (2022) 4, pp. 953-984
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013438463
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On Multidimensional Inequality : Ordering and Measurement
Savaglio, Ernesto - 2002
We study inequality in a context of more than one variable. We show an alternative ordering between matrices … theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014115191
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Health, income, and measures of inequality : why inequality may decline when all inequality measures indicate the opposite
Brekke, Kjell Arne; Kverndokk, Snorre - 2024
We study how measures of socioeconomic health inequality inform about welfare inequality. We argue that transfers of … either income or health from a better off to a worse off individual should reduce welfare inequality. Lacking an objective … measure of individual welfare, we suggest that such a transfer should reduce at least one measure of inequality: inequality in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015057694