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Redistribution around the world : causes and consequences

Jäntti, Markus; Pirttilä, Jukka; Rönkkö, Risto - 2016

redistribution and the impacts of redistribution on growth can be misleading. …

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Ghana : Poverty reduction over thirty years

McKay, Andrew D.; Pirttilä, Jukka; Tarp, Finn - 2015

Ghana is relatively rare among Sub-Saharan African countries in having had sustained positive growth every year since … the mid-1980s. This paper analyses the nature of the growth and then presents an analysis of the evolution of both …-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty …

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Redistribution, inequality, and growth revisited : comment on "Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence"

Jäntti, Markus; Pirttilä, Jukka; Rönkkö, Risto - 2020

An influential paper by Berg et al., 'Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence', uses the SWIID data to … examine the impact of inequality and redistribution on growth in both developing and developed countries. It finds that while … inequality is harmful for growth, redistribution does not hamper growth. This comment demonstrates that the redistribution and …

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Capital flight and development : an overview of concepts, methods, and data sources

Johannesen, Niels; Pirttilä, Jukka - 2016

This paper offers a critical review of the methods used to estimate the extent of capital flight and illicit financial flows from developing countries. The largest estimates in the literature are based on imperfect methods with a great margin for error. Emerging new studies have built on...

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The tax elasticity of formal work in African countries

McKay, Andrew D.; Pirttilä, Jukka; Schimanski, Caroline - 2019

A key policy problem in most developing countries is the size of the informal sector and its persistence over time. In need to increase their tax revenues, policy makers face a trade-off between decreasing tax rates (making formalizing potentially more attractive) and alternatively raising tax...

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Quantifying the impacts of expanding social protection on efficiency and equity : evidence from a behavioural microsimulation model for Ghana

Osei, Robert Darko; Pirttilä, Jukka; Rattenhuber, Pia - 2017

A large informal sector is a challenge for developing countries building up social protection systems. Expanding social safety nets reduces poverty, but financing them can increase the tax burden, potentially reducing availability of formal sector jobs. This paper quantifies impacts on income...

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Fiscal policy, state building and economic development

Addison, Tony; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Pirttilä, Jukka - 2018

This paper presents a synopsis of the contextual conditions, factors and challenges under which the recent evolution of tax systems has taken place over the past three decades. The paper gives especial emphasis to the role of natural endowments, political economy, social structure and history,...

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The consequences of the value-added tax on inequality

Alavuotunki, Kaisa; Pirttilä, Jukka - 2015

The adoption of the value-added tax has arguably been one of the most important tax policy measures worldwide, but is also one of the most heatedly debated. While some argue that the VAT has served as a useful tool to boost government revenue, others claim that it is also a regressive tax,...

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How do small firms respond to tax schedule discontinuities? : evidence from South African tax registers

Boonzaaier, Wian; Harju, Jarkko; Matikka, Tuomas; … - 2016

In this paper we study the effects of various tax schedule discontinuities on the behavior of small firms using high-quality and population-wide tax register data from South Africa. We use the bunching method to analyse how these discontinuities affect the firm-size distribution. We first...

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