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Concavity of Utility, Concavity of Welfare, and Redistribution of Income

Kaplow, Louis - 2003

The marginal social value of income redistribution is understood to depend on both the concavity of individuals … redistribution, as might be expected, whereas concavity of the social welfare function has a more subtle influence, one that in some …

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Concavity of Utility, Concavity of Welfare, and Redistribution of Income

Kaplow, Louis - 2003

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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 … poor and indifferent to each other. Section 6 reviews the theory of Pareto-efficient redistribution in pure distributive …

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Inequality in Germany : myths, facts, and policy implications

Battisti, Michele; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Lehwald, Sybille - 2016

In this paper we try to provide an overview of a series of simple descriptive facts on recent trends in economic inequality in Germany. We believe that it is important to be precise in the way in which we define the inequality measure and the sample we use, to avoid generating vague messages...

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The logic of inequality extraction : an application to Gini and top incomes data

Exenberger, Alexander - 2017

As embodied in the concept of "inequality extraction" (Branko Milanovic), it is not possible to increase inequality (especially income inequality) in a society sustainably to levels beyond what is actually socially acceptable (and even less to levels endangering physical subsistence of parts of...

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Estimating long-run income inequality from mixed tabular data : empirical evidence from Norway, 1875-2017

Aaberge, Rolf; Atkinson, Anthony B.; Modalsli, Jørgen … - 2020

Most evidence on the long-run evolution of income inequality is restricted to top income shares. While this evidence is relevant and important for studying the concentration of economic power, it is incomplete as an informational basis for analysing inequality in the income distribution as a...

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The impact of recent economic crises on income inequality and the risk of poverty in Greece

Petrakos, George; Rontos, Kōnstantinos; Vavoura, Chara; … - In: Economies : open access journal 11 (2023) 6, pp. 1-23

We consider the impact of the two recent economic crises, one that resulted from the great recession of 2007-2009 and one following the COVID-19 pandemic, on income inequality and the risk of poverty in Greece. To this end, we also investigate the key macroeconomic variables affecting the Greek...

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Einkommensungleichheit in Deutschland, Teil 2: Die Rolle der Umverteilung

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Battisti, Michele; Lehwald, Sybille - In: ifo Schnelldienst 69 (2016) 14, pp. 22-29

Deutschland ist ein Land, das kräftig von oben nach unten umverteilt, innerhalb von Haushalten, durch Steuern und Transfers sowie auch durch die Bereitstellung öffentlicher Güter: In kaum einem anderen Land ist die Differenz zwischen der Ungleichheit der Brutto- und Nettoeinkommen größer...

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Fiscal federalism and income inequality : an empirical analysis for Switzerland

Feld, Lars P.; Frey, Christian; Schaltegger, Christoph A.; … - 2018

This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal federalism on income inequality and redistribution. Theoretically … concentration in pre- and after-tax income without additional redistribution via progressive taxes. It is, however, crucial to …

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Classical Horizontal Inequity and Reranking : An Integrated Approach

Duclos, Jean-Yves; Jalbert, Vincent; Araar, Abdelkrim - 2003

transfers into a vertical equity effect and a loss of redistribution due to either classical HI or reranking. An inequality … decomposable across groups. As in recent work, equals are identified through a nonparametric estimation of the joint density of … erosion of redistribution attributable both to classical HI and to reranking, but does not reveal which of reranking or …

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