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Can Redistributive State Taxes Reduce Inequality?

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

Do income taxes levied at a state or regional level affect the after-tax distribution of income? Or do workers merely move between regions, causing pre-tax wages to adjust? This question is relevant both in across states in the United States, and across countries within the European Union. Using...

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Inequality.

Richardson, S. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1997

The social sciences in Australia heve been vey active in decribing, measuring, debating and seeking to understand inequality. This essay assesses how the social sciences have gone abour this research task, thier main conclusions and what we still do not know.

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Optimal Taxation, Inequality and Top Incomes

Andrienko, Yuri; Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2014

In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and at the same time a shift in the burden of taxation from the top to the middle of the income distribution. This paper applies the theory of optimal piecewise linear taxation to...

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On Income Inequality and Green Preferences

Marsiliani, Laura; Renström, Thomas I - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We derive conditions of individual preferences and technology that give rise to a negative correlation between income inequality and environmental protection. We present a class of models (which captures a static model as well as an overlapping-generations model) in which individuals differ in...

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The Evaluation of Citation Distributions

Ruiz-Castillo, Javier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

analysis is useful in the evaluation of the citations received by scientific papers in the periodical literature. The paper … begins by clarifying the role of citation analysis in the evaluation of research. Next, a summary of results about the … novel methodology for the evaluation of research units is illustrated by comparing the high- and low-citation impact …

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The Evaluation of Citation Distributions from an Economic Perspective

Ruiz-Castillo, Javier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

the evaluation of the distribution of the citations received by scientific papers in the periodical literature. The paper … evidence, two normative issues are addressed. Firstly, a novel methodology for the evaluation of research units is illustrated …

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Economics and Terrorism: What We Know, What We Should Know and the Data We Need

Llussá, Fernanda; Tavares, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

In this paper we organize the literature on the economics of terrorism around seven different topics, offering a comprehensive view of the literature with a view to identifying questions that remain unanswered. The chosen topic areas are: The Measurement of Terrorist Activity, The Nature of...

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Decision-making Procedures: A General Theory and Its Field Experimental Test

Aldashev, Gani; Kirchsteiger, Georg; Sebald, Alexander - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

It is a persistent finding in psychology and experimental economics that people's behavior is not only shaped by outcomes but also by decision-making procedures. In this paper we develop a general framework capable of modelling these procedural concerns. Within the context of psychological games...

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Optimal Tax Progressivity: An Analytical Framework

Heathcote, Jonathan; Storesletten, Kjetil; Violante, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

What shapes the optimal degree of progressivity of the tax and transfer system? On the one hand, a progressive tax system can counteract inequality in initial conditions and substitute for imperfect private insurance against idiosyncratic earnings risk. At the same time, progressivity reduces...

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Social Mobility and the Demand for Redistribution: the POUM Hypothesis

Bénabou, Roland; Ok, Efe A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

Even relatively poor people oppose high rates of redistribution because of the anticipation that they, or their children, may move up the income ladder. This ‘Prospect of Upward Mobility’ (POUM) hypothesis is commonly advanced to explain why democracies do not engage in large-scale...

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