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Assessing Aggregate Welfare: Growth and Inequality in Argentina

Gasparini, Leonardo; Sosa, Walter - In: Latin American Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos … 38 (2001) 113, pp. 49-71

estimates in order to obtain aggregate welfare series, which are a better measure of economic performance than the commonly used …

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Income Inequality During China's Economic Transition

Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; Giles, John; Wang, Sangui - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2005

This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality in China from 1987 to 2002, employing three series of data sets. Our focus is on both urban and rural inequality, as well as the urban-rural gap, with the objective of summarizing several “first-order” empirical patterns...

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Assessing Aggregate Welfare: Growth and Inequality in Argentina

Gasparini, Leonardo; Sosa Escudero, Walter - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2000

order to obtain aggregate welfare series. Average income figures are estimated from National Accounts while income … changes in inequality and welfare measures. Bootstrapping techniques are used to that aim. One of the main conclusions is that … while welfare assessments coincide among different value judgments in some periods (e.g. 1991-1994), they widely vary in …

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Per capita income versus household-need adjusted income: A cross-country comparison

Koulovatianos, Christos; Minkovski, Polina; Schroeder, … - 2010

We use data from the Luxembourg Income Study in order to quantify the economy-wide monetary gains achieved by household-size economies due to within-household sharing of goods by individuals living in multimember households. In most countries out of the twenty countries we examine, we observe a...

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Per-capita income versus household-need adjusted income: a cross-country comparison

Koulovatianos, Christos; schröder, carsten; Minkovski, … - In: Journal of Income Distribution 18 (2009) 3-4, pp. 11-23

We use data from the Luxembourg Income Study in order to quantify the economy-wide monetary gains achieved by Household-Size Economies, due to the within-household sharing of goods by individuals living in multi-member households. In most of the twenty countries we examine, we observe a decline...

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The Optimal Income Tax: Restatement and Extensions

Homburg, Stefan - 2002

The paper presents an axiomatic restatement of the standard approach to nonlinear income taxation. It assumes a finite number of taxpayers rather than an uncountable infinity. Analytical tools are developed which facilitate proving the existence of tax schedules that are continuous,...

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Optimal Marginal Tax Rates for Low Incomes: Positive, Negative, or Zero?

Homburg, Stefan - 2002

Previous studies have shown that the optimal marginal tax rate at the bottom of the income distribution may be positive, negative, or even zero. This paper reexamines this problem in a unified framework and tries to evaluate the arguments. It turns out that the case for positive marginal tax...

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Zwei deutsche Lastenausgleiche: eine kritische Würdigung

Hauser, Richard - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 80 (2011) 4, pp. 103-122

In diesem Beitrag werden der erste Lastenausgleich, der im Zusammenhang mit der Gründung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1948/1949 stattfand, und der - nicht so benannte - zweite Lastenausgleich nach der deutschen Wiedervereinigung 1990 analysiert und verglichen. Beim ersten Lastenausgleich ging...

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Zwei deutsche Lastenausgleiche: eine kritische Würdigung

Hauser, Richard - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly … 80 (2011) 4, pp. 103-122

This paper analyses and compares the first and the second program of burden sharing (Lastenausgleich): which were enacted after the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany 1948/49, and after the reunification of Germany 1990, respectively. The first program of burden sharing, firstly, aimed...

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Comparing population distributions from bin-aggregated sample data: An application to historical height data from France

Duclos, Jean-Yves; Leblanc, Josée; Sahn, David - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2009

This paper develops a methodology to estimate the entire population distributions from bin-aggregated sample data. We do this through the estimation of the parameters of mixtures of distributions that allow for maximal parametric flexibility. The statistical approach we develop enables...

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