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Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the … national plebiscites, to study the link between other-regarding preferences and support for redistribution in a broad sample of …
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The Brazilian government raises taxes amounting to 35% of GDP and spends more than two thirds of this on social programmes. These shares are in pair with the OECD averages and well in excess of Latin America averages. However, while tax-benefit systems in most OECD countries reduce income...
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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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' policy choices by transferring money to them. We observe very high levels of redistribution – even when transfers to …
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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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This paper develops a simulation model in order to examine the effectiveness of state attempts at redistribution under …-level redistribution are substantial, but state action may still be preferred to a federal policy that is at odds with preferences of a … state pursuing additional redistribution, but not a cost at the national level …
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We study employment dynamics using an OLG model with unemployment benefits and universal old-age survival pensions, both financed by taxing employed workers. The novelty is that we explicitly introduce workers' social norms that shape both the individual participation decision of workers and...
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lifetime earnings risk. Based on a dynamic life-cycle model, we find that redistribution through the tax-and -transfer system …
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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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provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … bound on optimal taxes: even for welfare functions that do not value redistribution, marginal tax rates are positive for all …
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