Browsing Articles (Departament d'Economia) by Subject "Progressive taxation"

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Elasticity determinants of inequality-reducing income taxation

Carbonell-Nicolau, Oriol; Llavador, Humberto (Springer, 2021)

The link between income inequality and progressive taxation has long been considered a fundamental normative foundation for income tax progressivity. This paper furnishes necessary and sufficient conditions on primitives, ...
Inequality reducing properties of progressive income tax schedules: the case of endogenous income

Carbonell-Nicolau, Oriol; Llavador, Humberto (Wiley, 2018)

The case for progressive income taxation is often based on the classic result of Jakobsson (1976) and Fellman (1976), according to which progressive and only progressive income taxes—in the sense of increasing average tax ...
Inequality, bipolarization, and tax progressivity

Carbonell-Nicolau, Oriol; Llavador, Humberto (American Economic Association, 2021)

The steady rise in income and wealth inequality in the last four decades, together with the evolution of a vanishing middle class, has raised concerns about potentially pernicious effects of these trends on social stability ...

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