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Economic Gains from Publicly Provided Education in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2021

The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided education and to analyse their impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and education-specific variation, from a cross-sectional...

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Public Education for the Children Left Behind

Camacho, Carmen - 2010

This paper examines the role of public education in the context of parental migration, and it studies the effects of an expansive income tax policy that is adopted to increase public education expenditure per pupil. It is shown that such a policy may exacerbate income inequality in the long run...

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Women in Top Incomes : Evidence from Sweden 1974–2013

Boschini, Anne - 2017

Using a large, register-based panel data set we study gender differences in top incomes in Sweden over the period 1974–2013. We find that, while women are still a minority of the top decile group, and make up a smaller share the higher up in the distribution we move, their presence has...

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Social Spending Generosity and Income Inequality : A Dynamic Panel Approach

Niehues, Judith - 2010

This paper explores if 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 GMM...

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Lifetime Versus Annual Tax Progressivity : Sweden, 1968–2009

Bengtsson, Niklas - 2012

This paper analyzes the evolution of tax progressivity in Sweden from both annual and lifetime perspectives. Using a rich micro panel with administrative records of incomes, taxes and benefits over the period 1968–2009, we calculate tax rates across the income distribution accounting for...

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The Impact of Redistributive Policies on Inequality in OECD Countries

Doerrenberg, Philipp - 2012

Recent discussions about rising inequality in industrialized countries have triggered calls for more government intervention and redistribution. Due to obvious behavioral effects caused by redistribution, it is however not clear whether redistributional policies are indeed able to combat...

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The Redistributive Effects of Tax Benefit Systems in the Enlarged EU

Fuest, Clemens - 2009

How do different components of the tax and transfer systems affect disposable income inequality? This paper explores the redistributive effects of different tax benefit instruments in the enlarged EU based on two approaches. Inequality analysis based on the standard approach suggests that...

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Income Inequality and the Size of Government : A Causal Analysis

Guzi, Martin - 2019

Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from the problem of endogeneity of government size with respect to the distribution of income. Studying 30 European countries over the period 2004-2015, we apply instrumental variable...

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Inequality of Opportunity and Economic Growth : A Cross-Country Analysis

Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2014

associated with faster economic growth, other kinds, arising from unequal opportunities for investment, might be detrimental to … Surveys, to revisit the question of whether inequality is associated with economic growth and, in particular, to examine … whether inequality of opportunity – driven by circumstances at birth – has a negative effect on subsequent growth.Results are …

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Does Wealth Inequality Matter for Growth? The Effect of Billionaire Wealth, Income Distribution, and Poverty

Bagchi, Sutirtha - 2014

A fundamental question in social sciences relates to the effect of wealth inequality on economic growth. Yet, in … inequality from Forbes magazine's listing of billionaires and compare its effect on growth to the effects of income inequality … and poverty. We find that wealth inequality reduces economic growth, but when we control for the fact that some …

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