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Social Spending Generosity and Income Inequality: A Dynamic Panel Approach

Niehues, Judith - 2010

This paper explores whether more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if redistributive outcomes are offset by behavioral disincentive effects. To account for the inherent endogeneity of social policies with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System...

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Income inequality & redistributional spending: An empirical investigation of competing theories

Mohl, Philipp; Pamp, Oliver - 2008

The link between income inequality and governmental redistribution is still subject to intense research and debate … this paper is to review the existing literature on inequality and redistribution, to explicate the theoretical causal … find robust evidence that income inequality affects redistribution. However, the precise degree of this relationship …

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Top incomes, rising inequality, and welfare

Lansing, Kevin J.; Markiewicz, Agnieszka - 2012

This paper develops a general-equilibrium model of skill-biased technological change that approximates the observed shifts in the shares of wage and non-wage income going to the top decile of U.S. households since 1980. Under realistic assumptions, we find that all agents can benefit from the...

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The Lorenz curve in economics and econometrics

Kleiber, Christian - 2007

econometrics, with a bias towards problems in statistical distribution theory. These include characterizations of income …

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A hazai jövedelemeloszlás és jövedelemegyenlőtlenség mérése és elemzése személyi jövedelembevallási adatok alapján

Kovács, Ilona - 2010

The introduction of the paper discusses the different opinions about income inequalities and income distribution. Further the author presents the most important alternative methods for measuring income inequalities. Contrary to the traditional income distribution analysis the underlying data...

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Measuring and Analyzing Income Distribution and Income Inequality in Hungary based on Data from Personal Income Tax Returns

Kovács, Ilona - 2010

This study surveys various views on income distribution and income inequality and presents alternative approaches to and analytical methods of measuring income inequality. In contrast to traditional income distribution analyses, the author examines the development of income distribution and...

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Household incomes in New Zealand: The impact of the market, taxes and government spending, 1987/88–1997/98

Crawford, Ron; Johnston, Grant - 2004

How well have New Zealand households fared over a decade of extensive economic and social changes? This study compares household incomes in 1997/98 with household incomes in 1987/88, using the concept of "final income". Final income is a measure of the income accruing to households after...

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Household incomes and redistribution in the European Union: quantifying the equalising properties of taxes and benefits

Immervoll, Herwig - 2005

The systems of direct taxes and cash benefits in the Member States of the European Union vary considerably in size and structure. We explore their direct impacts on cross-sectional income inequality (termed redistributive effect for the purpose of this paper) using EUROMOD, a tax-benefit...

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Entrepreneurship and income inequality in Southern Ethiopia

Kimhi, Ayal - 2009

This paper uses inequality decomposition techniques in order to analyse the consequences of entrepreneurial activities to household income inequality in southern Ethiopia. A uniform increase in entrepreneurial income reduces per capita household income inequality. This implies that encouraging...

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Social spending generosity and income inequality: a dynamic panel approach

Niehues, Judith - 2010

This paper explores if more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if redistributive outcomes are offset by behavioral disincentive effects. To account for the inherent endogeneity of social policies with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System GMM...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274676