Entrepreneurial Risk Taking, Inequality, and Public Policy
An Application of Inequality Decomposition Analysis to the General Equilibrium Effects of Progressive Taxation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10176707 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shashi M Kanbur (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 90 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-21 |
| Publication date | 1982-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3808 • E-ISSN: 1537-534X |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/261037 |
| OpenAlex | W2081586497 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 11 |
The objective of this paper is to investigate the "conventional wisdom" that there is a policy conflict between the reduction of inequality and the encouragement of entrepreneurial risk taking. The paper attempts to provide a precise statement of this conflict in the context of the progressivity of tax regimes. Using the method of inequality decomposition analysis, a taxonomy is developed which locates the sources of the policy conflict in a precise fashion. A detailed analysis then shows that the conventional wisdom is misleading if not wrong, and that in many cases the claimed policy conflict is quite simply illusory
Context (archaeology · Decomposition · Economics · General equilibrium theory · Inequality · Mathematical economics · Microeconomics · Policy analysis · Political science · Positive economics · Public economics · Statement (logic · Tax policy · Tax reform · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Law · Mathematics
Adverse Selection and Risk Aversion in Capital Markets
What Makes an Entrepreneur?
Self-employment in OECD countries
Enterprising Women in Southern Africa
Tax progressivity and self-employment
Does Entrepreneurship Pay? An Empirical Analysis of the Returns to Self‐Employment
Entrepreneurship and income inequality in southern Ethiopia
Entrepreneurship and the theory of taxation
Identity and entrepreneurship
Statistical decomposition analysis.
Capitalism and Freedom
Self-employment in OECD countries
What Makes an Entrepreneur?
The Class of Additively Decomposable Inequality Measures
Attitudes Toward Risk
On the Structure of Additive Inequality Measures
Decomposable Income Inequality Measures
Entrepreneurship and income inequality in southern Ethiopia
Entrepreneurship and the theory of taxation
The Effects of Taxation on Risk Taking
| Citations per year | 0.32 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1998 - 2020 (23) |
| Highly cited | No |