Equity

For equity, societies may wish to eliminate certain forms or manifestations of inequality. Horizontal equity and vertical equity in the income tax are topics which have interested me for some years. Although any shortfall from each of these objectives can be measured in terms of unwanted inequalitie...

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Other Authors Lambert, Peter J.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2007.
SeriesResearch on economic inequality ; v. 15.
Subjects
Equity.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849505086
ISSN1049-2585 ;
DOI10.1016/S1049-2585(2007)15
Physical Description1 online resource (xii, 305 p.).

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Table of Contents:
  • Redistribution and marginal productivity reward / Alexander W. Cappelen, Bertil Tungodden
  • Progressivity implications of public health insurance funding in Canada / James B. Davies, Michael Hoy
  • Public and private health insurance and the utilisation of health care in Spain / Pilar García Gómez, Angel López Nicolás
  • Aging and inter-generational fairness : a Canadian analysis / Michael Wolfson, Geoff Rowe
  • Changing poverty or changing poverty aversion? / Daniel L. Millimet, Daniel Slottje, Peter J. Lambert
  • A gender-focused macro-micro analysis of the poverty impacts of trade liberalization in South Africa / John Cockburn, Ismael Fofana, Bernard Decaluwe, Ramos Mabugu, Margaret Chitiga
  • Inequality and income gaps / Ian Preston
  • How progressive is progressive taxation? An axiomatic analysis / Udo Ebert, Georg Tillmann
  • Generalized probabilistic egalitarianism / Paul D. Thistle
  • Inequality and the choice of the personal tax base / Nigar Hashimzade, Gareth D. Myles
  • Strategic weight within couples : a microsimulation approach / Kristian Orsini, Amedeo Spadaro
  • Introduction / Peter J. Lambert.

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