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Is a Flat Tax Feasible in a Grown-up Welfare State?

Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas; Schaefer, Thilo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

The success of the flat rate tax in Eastern Europe suggests that this concept could also be a model for the welfare states of Western Europe. The present paper uses a simulation model to analyse the effects of revenue neutral flat rate tax reforms on equity and efficiency for the case of...

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Modelling the Impact of Direct and Indirect Taxes Using Complementary Datasets

Savage, Michael; Callan, Tim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Comprehensive modelling of the impact of taxes and tax policy options requires data on the impact at micro-level of both direct and indirect taxes. There are, however, limits on the amount of data that can be gathered by any one survey. With some exceptions, most notably the Living Costs and...

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The Welfare Impact of Price Changes on Household Welfare and Inequality 1999-2010

Loughrey, Jason; O'Donoghue, Cathal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

position of the household in the income distribution and that behavioural response can potentially improve the welfare position …

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Myth or Fact? The Beauty Premium across the Wage Distribution

Doorley, Karina; Sierminska, Eva - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

the wage distribution, as traditional methods can confound opposing effects at either end of the wage distribution … driven by looks than self-esteem. Counterfactual wage distributions, constructed using distribution regression, show a beauty … premium for women at the bottom of the wage distribution. However, most of this is explained by the fact that attractive women …

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Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence

Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

attitudes towards the income distribution in a society: the normative and the comparative view. The first can be thought of as …

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Earnings Functions, Rates of Return and Treatment Effects: The Mincer Equation and Beyond

Heckman, James J.; Lochner, Lance J.; Todd, Petra E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Numerous studies regress log earnings on schooling and report estimated coefficients as "Mincer rates of return". A more recent literature uses instrumental variables. This chapter considers the economic interpretation of these analyses and how the availability of repeated cross section and...

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20 Years of German Unification: Evidence on Income Convergence and Heterogeneity

Brück, Tilman; Peters, Heiko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West...

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Distribution of Natural Resources, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development: Growth Dynamics with Two Elites

Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

other natural resources determines structural change and economic development. A more equal distribution of natural … earned in the primary goods sector. Second, by shifting the distribution of political power from resource owners towards the …

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‘Living’ Wage, Class Conflict and Ethnic Strife

Dasgupta, Indraneel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

, impact on distribution via the joint determination of class conflict between workers and employers, and ‘ethnic’ conflict …

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Gender Gaps across the Earnings Distribution in Britain: Are Women Bossy Enough?

Chzhen, Yekaterina; Mumford, Karen A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper investigates gender differences between the log wage distributions of full-time British employees in the public and private sectors. After allowing for positive selection into full-time employment by women, we find significant and substantial gender earnings gaps, and evidence of...

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