Cash transfer programmes, income inequality and regional disparities. The case of the Uruguayan Asignaciones Familiares

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Amarante ◽  
R. Arim ◽  
A. Vigorito
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Regional Disparities ◽  
Cash Transfer

How Pro-Poor and Income Equitable Are Tourism Taxation Policies in a Developing Country? Evidence from a Computable General Equilibrium Model

2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 334-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renuka Mahadevan ◽  
Hidayat Amir ◽  
Anda Nugroho
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Computable General Equilibrium ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Computable General Equilibrium Model ◽  
Cash Transfer ◽  
Tax Revenue ◽  
Value Added Tax ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Transfer Policy ◽  
Resource Misallocation

This article highlights the impacts on poverty, income inequality, and the macroeconomic and sectoral output resulting from increases in the value-added tax and sales tax on hotels and restaurants using Indonesia as a case study. While taxing tourism-related sectors was ineffective in reducing poverty and income inequality, using tax revenue from the value-added tax as a cash transfer policy was effective and more so in rural Indonesia. Tax revenue used for infrastructural development was however limited in its impact on poverty and income distribution. Overall, the negative effects of taxation on various industries and the contraction of GDP and employment in the economy need to be mitigated. This can be done with an appropriate policy mix for the use of tax revenue between cash transfers and expenditure in education and health, with the view to address potential resource misallocation and output contraction in other industries.

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF REGIONAL DISPARITIES IN INCOME INEQUALITY

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iva Raycheva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Regional Disparities ◽  
Living Standards

In this paper are presented selected results from an empirical analysis of the income inequality in Bulgarian regions. As we know from the economic theory the income that people receive is a basic measure of living standards. Which from your end is related with the risk of poverty or social exclusion? Disparities of the regions is an actual question which is investigated by many researchers. The current research is investigating inequality and related indicators.

Environmental inequality

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Żylicz
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Environmental Monitoring ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Regional Disparities ◽  
Economic Indicators ◽  
Environmental Inequality ◽  
Econometric Modelling ◽  
Income Differentials ◽  
Environmental Monitoring Data

Unlike income inequality, environmental inequality has not been researched in Poland widely. In this chapter, we combine environmental monitoring data with economic indicators in order to address the question of whether regional disparities in environmental quality are linked to income differentials. It turns out that variation of air quality cannot be easily explained by regional economic indicators. The study serves as an exercise in simple econometric modelling.

scholarly journals U.S. Income Comparisons with Regional Price Parity Adjustments

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Bishop ◽  
Jonathan M. Lee ◽  
Lester A. Zeager
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Lower Cost ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Cash Transfer ◽  
Tax Progressivity ◽  
Family Head ◽  
The Family ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Entire Distribution

Abstract Using official regional price parities (RPPs) recently released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, we investigate how RPP adjustments affect the entire distribution of U.S. family incomes, poverty, inequality, tax progressivity, and metro-size agglomeration premiums. We find that higher-income families tend to live in higher-price areas, so regional mean incomes converge as real incomes fall in richer, higher-cost regions and rise in poorer, lower-cost regions. Further, the differences in poverty rates for the metro and non-metro areas vanish and we find re-rankings in poverty rates among the 9 Census Divisions. RPP adjustments also influence income inequality and effective U.S. tax progressivity. They increase effective federal tax progressivity by more than 25 %, equivalent to a $2,500 cash transfer. When we control for local prices and the characteristics of the family head, income (agglomeration) premiums for major metropolitan areas largely, but not completely, disappear.

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