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Top incomes, rising inequality, and welfare

Lansing, Kevin J.; Markiewicz, Agnieszka - 2015

We introduce permanently-shifting income shares into a standard growth model with two types of agents. Capital owners represent the top quintile of U.S. households while workers represent the remainder. Our tractable model allows us to exactly replicate the observed U.S. time paths of the top...

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Autocracy and redistribution : the politics of land reform

Albertus, Michael - 2015

works holds that redistribution should be both higher and more targeted at the poor under democracy. Yet comprehensive … historical data to test this claim has been lacking. This book shows that land redistribution - the most consequential form of … redistribution in the developing world - occurs more often under dictatorship than democracy. It offers a novel theory of land reform …

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Fiscal devaluation : efficiency and equity

Burgert, Matthias; Röger, Werner - 2014

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Assessing The Redistributive Effect of Fiscal Policy

Essama-Nssah, Boniface - 2008

Who benefits from public spending? Who bears the burden of taxation? How desirable is the distribution of net benefits from the operation of a tax-benefit system? This paper surveys basic concepts, methods, and modeling approaches commonly used to address these issues in the context of fiscal...

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Piketty’s Capital, his critics and basic income

Lo Vuolo, Rubén M. - In: Basic income studies : BIS ; an international journal … 10 (2015) 1, pp. 29-43

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Redistribution in a joint income-wealth perspective : a cross-country comparison

Kuypers, Sarah; Figari, Francesco; Verbist, Gerlinde - 2018

Redistribution is usually understood in terms of income; as a way to rank individuals as well as to determine taxable …

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The efficiency and distributive effects of local taxes : evidence from Italian municipalities

Rubolino, Enrico - 2019 - This version: February 2019

This paper analyzes the effect of local income taxation on taxable income, inequality and internal migration in Italy using two tax reforms and several administrative data sources. These reforms, introduced in 2007 and 2011, granted municipalities the authority to switch from a flat to a...

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What explains the redistribution achieved by the Italian personal income tax? : evidence from administrative data

Barbetta, Gian Paolo; Pellegrino, Simone; Turati, Gilberto - In: Public finance review : PFR 46 (2018) 1, pp. 7-28

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Decomposition approach on changes in redistributive effects of taxes and social insurance premiums

Ohno, Taro; Kodama, Takahiro; Matsumoto, Ryutaro - In: Public policy review 14 (2018) 4, pp. 777-802

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Soziale Umverteilung in Deutschland : Bestandsaufnahme und Ansätze zu einer rationalen Neukonzeption

Pimpertz, Jochen; Horschel, Nicole; Schröder, Christoph - 2009

Geflecht an Umverteilungsströmen. Die Effekte der staatlichen Redistribution lassen sich per Saldo kaum mehr nachvollziehen …. Auswertungen der Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe 2003 zeigen aber, dass nicht nur eine weitgehend konsistente Umverteilung … flows. It has become virtually impossible to calculate the overall net effect of redistribution by the state. However …

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