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The economic impacts of tax-transfer policy : regional and distributional effects /
The Economic Impacts of Tax-Transfer Policy: Regional and Distributional Effects deals with evaluating proposed income-transfer policies through tax modeling. The book analyzes the direct and indirect effects of two variants of a negative income tax plan. These are the standard negative income tax a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Academic Press,
�1977.
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| Colección: | Institute for Research on Poverty monograph series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; The Economic Impacts of Tax-Transfer Policy: Regional and Distributional Effects; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of tables; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Income transfers and income redistribution; Chapter 2. Two tax-transfer policy proposals-the basis for a simulation exercise; Two tax-transfer proposals; Financing the transfer proposals; On evaluating tax-transfer policies; Chapter 3. Modeling the microeconomic effects of tax-transfer policy: Conceptual issues; Structure of the model; Components of the model; The consumption expenditure module
- Chapter 4. Modeling the microeconomic effects of tax-transfer policy: Empirical issuesEmpirical implementation of the model; The model in notational form; Chapter 5. From first-round to final income redistribution: How much do antipoverty transfers equalize incomes?; First-round distributional effects; Induced distributional effects; Chapter 6. Between first-round and final income redistribution: The process of economic adjustment; Effects of FAP and NIT on consumption expenditures; Effects of FAP and NIT on gross output; Effects of FAP and NIT on labor demand
- Chapter 7. Summary and conclusionsA brief summary of empirical findings; Some caveats; Some policy implications; Appendix A: Calculation of benefits from income-transfer programs; Negative income tax (NIT); Family Assistance Plan (FAP); Appendix B: Simulateci state supplementary welfare payments under FAP; Appendix C: Simulated tax revenues required to finance transfer programs; Appendix D: Estimation of marginal budget shares; A piecewise semi-log expenditure-income regression model; Calculation of commodity-specific estimates of marginal consumption propensity
- Estimation of vectors of marginal budget sharesAppendix E: Reconciliation of consumer expenditure categories with input-output categories; Appendix F: The formation of socioeconomic groups for expenditure models based on normal income; The data; Grouping the observations; The socioeconomic groups and their economic characteristics; Appendix G: Estimation of ratios of employment to output, by industry and region; Appendix H: Statistical reliability of regional aggregation; Appendix I: Detailed occupational categories; Appendix J: Estimation of regional matrices of occupation by earnings class
- Appendix K: Impacts of income-transfer policies on gross output, by detailed industryAppendix L: Impacts of income-transfer policies on labor demand, by detailed occupational category; Subject index