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strategies in the domain of social security and welfare in the Republic of Moldova, as well as the dynamics of the main … clear image to the degree of social justice and welfare in the Republic of Moldova. Judging by the obtained results … security and welfare …
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We illustrate how the desire to live in a fair society that rewards individual effort and hard work triggers an unselfish though rational demand for redistribution. This leads the well off to prefer higher taxes and the poor to reject extreme progressivity. We then provide evidence of these...
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This paper focuses on the possibilities and functionalities offered by the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the UK – UKMOD to simulate and analyse the distributional impact of three examples of Basic Income schemes. We show how to build in functionalities to ensure fiscal neutrality and...
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marginal tax rate decreases inequality in both wealth and income but also leads to a contraction of the aggregate economy. This … is primarily driven by the negative effects that the tax change has on top income earners. The aggregate gain in welfare …
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tax rate decreases inequality in both wealth and income but also leads to a contraction of the aggregate economy. This is … primarily driven by the negative effects that the tax change has on top income earners. The aggregate gain in welfare is sizable …
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utilitarian social welfare function yields a simple welfare measure which comprises both GDP and income inequality as measured by …Over the last decades, research in behavioural economics has demonstrated that individual welfare (utility), as … gathering that something similar holds for aggregate welfare, i.e. that GDP alone is an insufficient predictor for various …
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This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic … analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent … voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory concentrates on lump-sum voluntary transfers, individual or collective …
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Im Laufe der letzten Jahre werden vor dem Hintergrund der anhaltenden und weiterhin ansteigenden hohen Arbeitslosigkeit arbeitsmarkt- und beschäftigungspolitische Instrumente diskutiert, die nicht - wie meist üblich - an der Arbeitsmenge, sondern am Preis für Arbeit ansetzen. Zu diesen...
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The objective of this article is to estimate the fiscal costs, using income and expenditure surveys, of the provision of basic public services (electricity, water, telephone and internet) for the 40% of the population with the lowest incomes, the provision of a subsidy of 50% of actual food...
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