Not surprisingly, studies that try directly to measure the distributional consequences reach divergent conclusions.
And one of the things that's different about them is that they don't fit neatly into distributional charts.
Contrary to some popular opinions, growth does not appear to have systematically adverse distributional consequences in average circumstances.
Entin, Measuring the Economic and Distributional Effects of the Final Fiscal Cliff Bill, Tax Foundation, Jan. 2, 2013.
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Labour has widened this agenda to include sustainable development, environment, and distributional concerns.
One could make a distributional argument for government education and claim that governments provide education in order to help the poor.
The difficulty of opening a charter school in Memphis suggests that even the distributional goals of government education are not being met.
Cain should swat away distributional critiques with the back of his hand.
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The IFS then goes on to make rough estimates of the distributional impact of all the cuts and shows an ever stepper regressive curve.
Nevertheless, the distributional consequences of the Proposition should not be ignored.
The reader is given no insight as to whether these rates are based on some distributional principle, an attempt to maximize government revenue, or something else.
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We conclude that the demand-augmenting effect of an immigration shock is a significant secondary adjustment process that must be considered when assessing the distributional effects of immigration.
What is the distributional impact of middle class entitlements?
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To make those distributional consequences even more egregious, the word from Brussels is that while depositors will get hit, the senior creditors who own bonds in the banks (including, naturally, some of the racier hedge funds) will escape scot-free.
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By the way, for those who argue with that second point: when Census looks at the distributional impact of taxes it states that the burden of the corporate income tax is calculated to fall on those who own the corporate capital.
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