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Black tax: An international exploratory study in the South African context
Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences, 2021 Orientation: South Africa is a country where the vast majority of residents experience inequality, poverty and deprivation on a daily basis. For many black South Africans, their experience includes the expectation to financially support extended family.
Riley Carpenter, Malilimalo Phaswana
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra +3 more
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A Study of the Role of Government in Income and Wealth Distribution by Integrating the Walrasian General Equilibrium and Neoclassical Growth Theories [PDF]
Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, 2014 This paper proposes a growth model of heterogeneous households with economic structure, wealth accumulation, endogenous labour supply, and tax rates. The paper is focused on effects of redistribution policies on income and wealth distribution, economic ...
Wei-Bin Zhang
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A Wealth Distribution Agent Model Based on a Few Universal Assumptions
Entropy, 2023 We propose a new agent-based model for studying wealth distribution. We show that a model that links wealth to information (interaction and trade among agents) and to trade advantage is able to qualitatively reproduce real wealth distributions, as well ...
Matheus Calvelli, Evaldo M. F. Curado
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The Wealth Tax: A Policy Proposal
Journal of Economic Issues, 1990 In the 198Os, wealthy U.S. taxpayers have enjoyed soaring interest and dividend incomes. At the same time, the higher income tax brackets have been eliminated. Furthermore, interest payments on the national debt have crowded out a rising proportion of useful public programs from available public revenues.
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract In Santa Barbara County, the Youth Empowerment Services (YES) Program brought together several government and community‐based organizations, as well as a university‐based evaluation team, to provide pre‐adjudication diversion to youth ages 12 to 17.
Angela Pollard +7 more
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Can Inheritance Taxation Promote Equality of Opportunities?
LSE Public Policy Review, 2022 After a period of relatively strong economic and social mobility during the post-WWII decades, labour income is now quickly losing its capacity to fuel mobility across the wealth distribution of Western economies, with inheritance becoming again the ...
Etienne Fize +2 more
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Earnings and Wealth Inequality and Income Taxation: Quantifying the Trade-Offs of Switching to a Proportional Income Tax in the U.S. Ohio [PDF]
, 1998 This papaer quantifies the steady-state aggregate, distributinal and mobility effects of switching the U.S. to a proportional income tax system. As a perriquisite to the analysi, we propose a theory of earnings and wealth inequality capable of accounting
Castañeda, Ana +2 more
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Racism and racial disparities in firearm violence: A scoping review
American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Firearm violence (i.e., interpersonal, police firearm violence) disproportionately affects racially minoritized communities. Researchers recently shifted their focus from race to racism to better understand the factors that contribute to racial disparities in firearm violence.
Daniel B. Lee +8 more
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Attacking the public health crisis of hepatocellular carcinoma at its roots
Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract As the third most common cause of cancer‐related death worldwide with significant mortality rates in the United States, hepatocellular carcinoma has strong association with cirrhosis and chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) with a growing at‐risk population from the rise in chronic liver disease from alcohol use and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
Hannah M. Lee +3 more
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