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Local and state governments attempt to lessen after-tax income inequality via progressive taxation. Migration responses … of capital and labor undermine such attempts. Location theory predicts that cross-state migration will continue until the …
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Local and state governments attempt to lessen after-tax income inequality via progressive taxation. Migration responses … of capital and labor undermine such attempts. Location theory predicts that cross-state migration will continue until the …
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The authors analyze to what extent and how the tax burden should be shifted towards top income earners in order to reduce income inequality. Starting from Lambert and Aronson (Inequality decomposition analysis and the Gini coefficient revisited 1993) and Alvaredo (A note on the relationship...
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This papers quantifies the redistributive effects on progressivity, poverty and welfare, that would occur if the …
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This paper produces a comprehensive assessment of income redistribution to the working-age population, covering OECD … countries over the last two decades. Redistribution is quantified as the relative reduction in market income inequality achieved … data. A detailed decomposition analysis uncovers the respective roles of size, tax progressivity and transfer targeting for …
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The last decade has seen a sharp increase in interest in the possible existence of a Paradox of Redistribution (PoR …
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This paper presents a novel technique to measure and compare the redistributive capacity of observed tax (or transfer) policies. The technique is based on income distribution simulations and controls for differences in pre-tax income distributions. It assumes that the only information on the...
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