This paper examines the Gini-based method of decomposing the redistributive effect of taxation into vertical, horizontal, and reranking components. The consequences of different bandwidth choices, used to identify close-equals groups to estimate the horizontal effect, are discussed. Two opposing...

1. Introduction 2. Labour Supply 3. The Slutsky Condition 4. Welfare Changes 4.1 The Expenditure Function 4.2 Compensating and Equivalent Variations 5. Numerical Examples 5.1 The Tax System 5.2 Utility and Labour Supply 6. Conclusions

This paper examines the question of the extent to which redistribution can be achieved using a structure of consumption taxes differential rates and exemptions. A local measure of progression, that of liability progression (equivalent to the revenue elasticity) is examined. Results are obtained...

This paper aims to examine the growth effects of human capital investment achieved through publicly-provided, compulsory education, financed from income and consumption taxes.

This paper examines the optimal management strategy for a forested catchment that yields timber, water and carbon sequestration benefits. The Faustmann multiple rotation model is extended to allow for the maximisation of the net present value of these timber and non-timber benefits. The model is...

Wage functions provide much useful descriptive information about those characteristics of individuals which are associated with relatively high or low wage rates. In any cross-sectional survey there are many individuals who are not working at the time the survey is carried out. Such people may...

Tax models come in all shapes and sizes, depending on the nature of the policy issues examined. The policy questions may relate to specific problems, concerning perhaps the revenue implications of a particular tax, or they may involve an extensive analysis of the cost and redistributice effects...

This paper provides an introduction to an approach to the measurement of exact measures based only on empirical Marshallian demand functions.

The aim of this paper is to provide an introductory analysis of labour supply in the presence of piecewise linear tax structures. Emphasis is given to the efficient computation of local optimal for a tax rate structure having any number of effective marginal tax rates.

This paper investigates a Bayesian approach for examining posterior distributions of several inequality, concentration, tax progressivity and social welfare measures.