Well-Being, Poverty and Labor Income Taxation: Theory and Application to Europe and the U.S
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- MANIQUET, François & NEUMANN, Dirk, 2016. "Well-Being, Poverty and Labor Income Taxation: Theory and Application to Europe and the U.S," LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE 2016029, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE).
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Keywords
labor income taxation; poverty; well-being;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- H21 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
- I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EUR-2016-09-04 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-HAP-2016-09-04 (Economics of Happiness)
- NEP-LTV-2016-09-04 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
- NEP-PBE-2016-09-04 (Public Economics)
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