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Trading non-tradables: the implications of Europe’s job posting policy
This paper examines the impacts of the EU posting policy, a large trade and temporary migration program facilitated by the free provision of services. The
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Is Charitable Giving Political? Evidence from Wealth and Income Tax Returns in France
There has been a rise in philanthropy in Western democracies in recent years. In France, charitable giving increased by 78.6% increase between 2006 and 2019.
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Anti-corruption campaign in China: An empirical investigation
Using official information published by Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) of the CPC, we construct a database of officials who have been found
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The Impact of Communist Party Membership on Wealth Distribution and Accumulation in Urban China
This paper provides the first in-depth investigation into the evolution of the wealth gap between CCP and non-CCP households in urban China from 1995 to
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Preliminary Estimates of Global Posttax Income Distributions
This technical note combines data from household surveys, government budgets, tax simulators, national accounts, and detailed fiscal incidence studies to construct a new database on
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Historical Inequality Series
The purpose of this technical note is to describe the construction of WID.world’s long-run per-adult income inequality series and adjustments made to ensure consistency with
LireWealth and Property Taxation in the United States
We study the history and geography of wealth accumulation in the US, using newly collected historical property tax records since the early 1800s. The US
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Uncovering the Dynamics of the Wealth Distribution
This paper introduces a new way of decomposing the evolution of the wealth distribution using a simple continuous time stochastic model, which separates the
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Climate inequality report 2023, Fair taxes for a sustainable future in the global South
The climate crisis has begun to disrupt human societies by severely affecting the very foundations of human livelihood and social organisation. Climate impacts are
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