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Trading off Total Income in Favour of Income Equality: Elasticity Estimates for Six Western Countries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2016

J. Ph. Biette ,
J. Cattier ,
L. Gevers  and
B. Jehin
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Extract

In most countries, attempts to reform taxation and income transfer programs stir up heated controversies. The cost and effectiveness of such reforms require careful evaluation.

In their recent survey, Danziger, Haveman and Plotnick (1981) observe that the current best practice in the U.S. is to evaluate the effects of a reform by simulating its operation on a nationally weighted microdata base.

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Recherches Économiques de Louvain/ Louvain Economic Review , Volume 48 , Issue 2 , 1982 , pp. 133 - 157
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Copyright © Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de recherches économiques et sociales 1982 

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Facultés Notre-Dame de la Paix, Faculté des Sciences Economiques et Sociales, Namur.

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