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Trade Liberalization and Welfare Inequality : A Demand-Based Approach

Tarasov, Alexander - 2010

trade liberalization can affect welfare inequality within a country via changes in the relative prices of goods consumed by … environment that leads to variable markups affected by trade and trade costs. I find that trade liberalization does affect the … show that the relative welfare of the rich with respect to that of the poor has a hump shape as a function of trade costs …

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Selection effects, inequality, and aggregate gains from trade

Nigai, Sergey - In: Journal of international economics 142 (2023), pp. 1-25

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Geography matters : spatial dimensions of trade, migration and growth

Steinwachs, Thomas - 2019

econometric methodology. Chapter 1 applies an econometric gravity analysis to bilateral trade flows to assess how successful the … European Schengen Agreement has been in boosting international trade. It proposes a new indicator variable to account for the …

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Optimal redistributive wealth taxation when wealth is more than just capital

Franks, Max; Edenhofer, Ottmar - 2020

We show how normative standpoints determine optimal taxation of wealth. Since wealth is not equal to capital, we find very different welfare implications of land rent-, bequest- and capital taxation. It is mainly land rents that should be taxed. We develop an overlapping generations model with...

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Universal social welfare orderings and risk

Fleurbaey, Marc; Zuber, Stéphane - 2021

How to evaluate and compare social prospects when there may be a risk on i) the actual allocation people will receive; ii) the existence of these future people; and iii) their preferences? This paper investigate this question that may arise when considering policies that endogenously affect future...

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Consensus income distribution

Stark, Oded; Falniowski, Fryderyk; Jakubek, Marcin - 2017

In determining the optimal redistribution of a given population's income, we ask which factor is more important: the social planner's aversion to inequality, embedded in an isoelastic social welfare function indexed by a parameter alpha, or the individuals' concern at having a low relative...

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Modelling some equality and social welfare impacts of road tolling under conditions of traffic uncertainty

Ortega, Alejandro; Vassallo, José Manuel; Pérez, Juan … - In: Research in transportation economics 88 (2021), pp. 1-12

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Regional, Urban and Rural Components of Income Inequality in Yugoslavia

Bogetic, Zeljko - 2014

The paper decoposes the Theil index and ANOVA to understand interregional, urban and rural contributions to the overall variation in average personal incomes (API) in the Yugoslav municipalities. The paper finds that inter-regional variation contributes significantly - about 25 percent - to the...

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Within-between decomposition of the Gini index : a novel proposal

Attili, Federico - 2021 - Rev. ed.

This paper considers a partitioned population and develops a decomposition of the Gini index in two components, which measure the within and the between groups inequality. Differently from the most widespread inequality measure decompositions, having a between component that compares the means...

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Within-Between Decomposition of the Gini Index : A Novel Proposal

Attili, Federico - 2021

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