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Insurance, Redistribution, and the Inequality of Lifetime Income

Haan, Peter - 2018

lifetime earnings risk. Based on a dynamic life-cycle model, we find that redistribution through the tax-and -transfer system …

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Tax-Benefit Revealed Redistributive Preferences Over Time : Ireland 1987-2005

Bargain, Olivier - 2010

By inverting Saez (2002)'s model of optimal income taxation, we characterize the redistributive preferences of the Irish government between 1987 and 2005. The (marginal) social welfare function revealed by this approach is consistently comparable over time and show great stability despite...

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Should the Rich Be Taxed More? The Fiscal Inequality Coefficient

Hatgioannides, John - 2017

This paper holistically addresses the effective (relative) income tax contribution of a given in-come (or, wealth) group. The widely acclaimed standard in public policy is the absolute benefaction of a given income group in filling up the fiscal coffers. Instead, we focus on the ratio of the...

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The Value of Redistribution : Natural Resources and the Formation of Human Capital Under Weak Institutions

Agüero, Jorge - 2017

students and district-level administrative data on mining production and the redistribution of mining taxes to local … governments, we find no effect from production. However, redistribution of mining taxes increases math test scores by 0 … increases in adult employment and health outcomes of adults and children, as key mechanisms from the redistribution. Policy …

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The Global Inequality Boomerang

Kanbur, Ravi; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo; Sumner, Andrew - 2022

In this paper we argue that the decline in global inequality over the last decades has spurred a 'sunshine' narrative of falling global inequality that has been rather oversold, in the sense, we argue, it is likely to be temporary. We argue the decline in global inequality will reverse due to...

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On the Precarious Link between the Gini Coefficient and the Incentive to Migrate

Stark, Oded - 2020

We offer an explanation for the inconclusive results of empirical studies into the relationship between the magnitude of the Gini coefficient of income distribution at origin and the intensity of migration. Bearing in mind the substantial literature that identifies relative deprivation as an...

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Distributional Effects of Emission Pricing in a Carbon-Intensive Economy : The Case of Poland

Antosiewicz, Marek - 2020

In this paper, we assess the distributional impact of introducing a carbon tax in Poland. We apply a two-step simulation procedure. First, we evaluate the economy-wide effects with a dynamic general equilibrium model. Second, we use a microsimulation model based on household budget survey data...

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The Measurement of Health Inequalities : Does Status Matter?

Costa-Font, Joan - 2019

Approaches to measuring health inequalities are often problematic in that they use methods that are inappropriate for categorical data. The approach here focuses on "pure" or univariate health inequality (rather than income-related or bivariate health inequality) and is based on a concept of...

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Analysis of the Determinants of Income and Income Gap between Urban and Rural China

Su, Biwei - 2014

This paper studies on the determinants of income and urban-rural income gap to shed light on the problem of urban-rural income inequality in China. OLS, conditional quantile regression and Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition methods are used to analyze four waves of the China Health and Nutrition...

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Income Mobility of Individuals in China and the United States

Khor, Niny - 2006

Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income mobility of urban individuals in China and the United States in the 1990s. The following...

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