- Title
- Does Inequality Still Matter? Income Heterogeneity and Local Government Expenditure
- Creator
- Drew, Joseph; Miyazaki, Masato; Mcquestin, Dana
- Relation
- Economic Record Vol. 100, Issue 330, p. 373-385
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1475-4932.12812
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2024
- Description
- The concern that income inequality might have a deleterious impact on government goes back well over 2300 years. In recent times, the focus has settled on the threat posed by an association between inequality and government expenditure. In this work we investigate inequality and expenditure from the perspective of a jurisdiction wherein taxes have little association with incomes, taxation limitations apply and few goods are redistributive in nature. This context prompts us to adapt and propose an alternate explanation by which to investigate matters. Our work concludes with a reflection on the importance of testing old ideas in new contexts.
- Subject
- inequality; government; expenditure; tax system; SDG 1; SDG 10; Sustainable Development Goal
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1516120
- Identifier
- uon:56941
- Identifier
- ISSN:0013-0249
- Rights
- © 2024 The Author(s). Economic Record published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Economic Society of Australia. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
- Language
- eng
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