help to understand and fight tax evasion. In this paper we analyze the effect of progressive taxation on tax morale in a … progressivity on tax morale is declining in income. In our empirical analysis, we make use of a unique dataset of tax progressivity …

reduce income inequality. Starting from Lambert and Aronson (Inequality decomposition analysis and the Gini coefficient …

This papers quantifies the redistributive effects on progressivity, poverty and welfare, that would occur if the …

The last decade has seen a sharp increase in interest in the possible existence of a Paradox of Redistribution (PoR …

reduce income inequality. Starting from Lambert and Aronson (Inequality decomposition analysis and the Gini coefficient …

life-cycle model, we find that redistribution by taxes and transfers off sets 54% of the inequality in lifetime earnings …

In this paper, we study how the tax-and-transfer system reduces the inequality of lifetime income by redistributing … lifetime earnings risk. Based on a dynamic life-cycle model, we find that redistribution through the tax-and-transfer system … offsets around half of the inequality in lifetime earnings that is due to differences in skill endowments. At the same time …

In this paper, we study how the tax-and-transfer system reduces the inequality of lifetime income by redistributing … lifetime earnings risk. Based on a dynamic life-cycle model, we find that redistribution through the tax-and -transfer system … offsets around half of the inequality in lifetime earnings that is due to differences in skill endowments. At the same time …

this study I aim to examine the tax system's modification of horizontal income inequality between the six most prevalent … Luxembourg Income Study (LIS). I estimate pre- and post-fiscal income inequality measured as between-family-type Theil indices …. Using linear regression, I examine the association of the percentage change in inequality and the prevalence of family type …

-cycle model, we determine that taxes and transfers offset 45% of lifetime earnings inequality attributed to differences in …