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Social spending generosity and income inequality : a dynamic panel approach

Niehues, Judith - 2010 - This version: October 29, 2010

This paper explores whether more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if redistributive outcomes are offset by behavioral disincentive effects. To account for the inherent endogeneity of social policies with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System...

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Social spending generosity and income inequality: a dynamic panel approach

Niehues, Judith - 2010

on pre-government income inequality hints at substantial disincentive effects. -- social benefits ; redistribution …

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Redistribution, horizontal inequity, and reranking: direct taxation in the UK, 1977-2020

Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2023

We decompose the redistributive effect of direct taxes into vertical, horizontal, and reranking components applying the methods of Urban and Lambert (Public Finance Review, 2008). In the first such application to the UK, and using yearly data covering 1977-2020, we find that redistributive...

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Can Information About Inequality and Social Mobility Change Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Controlled Trials in 11 High and Middle-Income Countries

Hoy, Christopher - 2018

the national government to address inequality through redistribution by providing them with information about inequality … preferences for redistribution are only elastic to information in some countries and in the United States both types of … information lowered support for redistribution. Secondly, in middle income countries, information about people's position in the …

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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...

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A class of proximity-sensitive measures of relative deprivation

Stark, Oded; Bielawski, Jakub; Falniowski, Fryderyk - 2017

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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 …

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Correcting inequality of personal incomes before income taxes and transfers : theoretical underpinnings and competition policy options

Sell, Friedrich L. - In: Central European review of economics and management : CEREM 5 (2021) 2, pp. 55-84

Aim: The purpose of this paper is to bring together theory and policy of (personal) income distribution on the one hand …

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Transfers, Income Increments and Leaky Bucket Comparisons for the Gini Index of Income Inequality

Sattinger, Michael - 2021

The paper uses an alternative expression for the Gini Index to derive the effects of transfers and increments of income on the Gini Index. The results support Gastwirth's conclusions (2017) that the Gini Index is not overly sensitive to middle incomes. The results are used to determine the level...

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You, me and the mean : a semiparametric approach to the redistributive effects of transfer programs

Garcia-Medina, B. Cecilia - 2016

I examine how changes in the receipt of social transfers benefits associated to program reforms have affected the Canadian income distribution over the 1996-2006 period. Using the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, I apply nonparametric decomposition methods to construct density...

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