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Who's afraid of aggregating money metrics?
Bosmans, Kristof; Decancq, Koen; Ooghe, Erwin - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 13 (2018) 2, pp. 467-484
We provide an axiomatic justification to aggregate money metrics. The key axiom requires the approval of richer-to-poorer transfers that preserve the overall efficiency of the distribution. This transfer principle - together with the basic axioms of anonymity, continuity, monotonicity, and a...
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How important are the unit of analysis and equivalence scales when measuring income poverty and inequality? : evidence from Ireland
Regan, Mark; Kakoulidou, Theano - 2022
-units) on inequality and poverty statistics using Irish microdata. We find that benchmark equivalence scales result in … attributable to changes in the adult weight. Inequality statistics tend to be less sensitive to the choice of equivalence scale but ….35. Other inequality metrics, such as the p90p10 ratio, exhibit increased volatility over the business cycle at sub …
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Optimal taxation when the tax burden matters
Jessen, Robin; Metzing, Maria; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2022
deserve tax breaks. We demonstrate that the German tax-transfer system conflicts with a welfarist inequality averse social … planner. It is consistent with a planner who is averse to both inequality and high tax liabilities. The tax-transfer schedule … European countries and the USA and show that their redistributive systems can be rationalized with an inequality averse social …
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Chapter 10 Taxation
Kaplow, Louis - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 1, (pp. 647-755). 2007
This Handbook entry presents a conceptual, normative overview of the subject of taxation. It emphasizes the relationships among the main functions of taxation—notably, raising revenue, redistributing income, and correcting externalities—and the mapping between these functions and various...
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Chapter 35 Equity in health
Williams, Alan; Cookson, Richard - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 1863-1910). 2000
Equity in health has to be distinguished from equity in access to health care, or equity in the distribution of health care resources. We take as a working definition of health for our purposes the number of quality adjusted life years that a person may expect to enjoy over his or her lifetime....
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Chapter 34 Equity in health care finance and delivery
Wagstaff, Adam; van Doorslaer, Eddy - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 1803-1862). 2000
The paper surveys the economics literature on equity in health care financing and delivery. The focus is, for the most part, on empirical work, especially that involving international and temporal comparisons. There is, however, some discussion of the concept and definition of equity. The...
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Chapter 13 Income distribution and development
Kanbur, Ravi - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 1, (pp. 791-841). 2000
case studies rather than cross-country regression analysis; (ii) the phenomenon of increasing inequality; (iii) different …) alternative modes of redistribution in face of inequality increasing tendencies. …
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Chapter 2 Measurement of inequality
Cowell, F.A. - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 1, (pp. 87-166). 2000
The analysis of inequality is placed in the context of recent developments in economics and statistics. …
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Chapter 8. Post-1970 Trends in Within-Country Inequality and Poverty : Rich and Middle-Income Countries
Morelli, Salvatore; Smeeding, Timothy; Thompson, Jeffrey - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 593-696). 2015
in poverty and income inequality, up to 2010 or 2011 in most countries. We provide measures of the levels and trends in … income inequality, and inequality among those with top incomes. …
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Chapter 5. Polarization
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Taptué, André-Marie - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 301-358). 2015
foundations, how polarization is distinct from inequality and other ways of considering distances and differences across …
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