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The distributional impacts of fiscal policy : the case of the Philippines
Son, Hyun H. - 2022
The distributional impacts of fiscal policies are instrumental in reducing inequality in countries like the Philippines, where inequality has been persistently high. This paper assesses how equitable various taxes and transfers in the Philippines are by deriving the elasticities of Atkinson and...
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Taxation and redistribution : some clarifications
Kaplow, Louis - In: Tax law review 60 (2007) 2, pp. 57-81
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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials
Kerr, William - 2012
-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve …-led redistribution to the poor. These patterns suggest that short-run inequality shocks can be reinforced in the labor market but do not … result in weaker political preferences for redistribution …
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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials
Kerr, William - 2016
-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve …-led redistribution to the poor. These patterns suggest that short-run inequality shocks can be reinforced in the labor market but do not … result in weaker political preferences for redistribution …
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Retreat from Progressive Taxation in the Swedish Welfare State : Does Immigration Matter?
Ordower, Henry - 2021
systems (even though money is fungible), Sweden insisted on a redistribution model for many years. Taxpayers and their …
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An empirical investigation on the drivers of income redistribution across OECD countries
Causa, Orsetta; Vindics, Anna; Akgun, Oguzhan - 2018
This paper provides an empirical investigation on the drivers of tax and transfer income redistribution to working …. The analytical approach is based on a reduced-form model of income redistribution which is estimated through cross …-country-time series regressions. The baseline model builds on the political economy literature of income redistribution and includes a set …
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Chapter 10 Taxation
Kaplow, Louis - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 1, (pp. 647-755). 2007
This Handbook entry presents a conceptual, normative overview of the subject of taxation. It emphasizes the relationships among the main functions of taxation—notably, raising revenue, redistributing income, and correcting externalities—and the mapping between these functions and various...
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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth
Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006
This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic … voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory concentrates on lump-sum voluntary transfers, individual or collective … altruistic transfers by Pareto-efficient public redistribution. The chapter is organized as follows. Section 2 presents an …
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The impact of the tax system structure on the narrowing of income disparities in OECD countries
Mazurek-Chwiejczak, Małgorzata - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 12 (2016) 3, pp. 27-37
Social disparities have a common and consistent character in the vast majority of contemporary countries. The level of income inequality in OECD countries has grown in the past 30 years and is still rising. Taxes and tax systems, aside from social transfers, are fiscal instruments widely used in...
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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
The authors analyze to what extent and how the tax burden should be shifted towards top income earners in order to reduce income inequality. Starting from Lambert and Aronson (Inequality decomposition analysis and the Gini coefficient revisited 1993) and Alvaredo (A note on the relationship...
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