income effect

economics

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individual income tax

  • John Linnell: portrait of Sir Robert Peel
    In income tax: Rationale for taxation

    …established standard of living (the income effect). To the extent that the tax reduces the reward for an extra hour’s work, it may make the taxpayer decide to work less and to indulge in more leisure (the substitution effect); presumably, the larger the income and the more steeply progressive the…

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utility and value

  • Figure 1: Relationship between marginal utility and quantity (see text).
    In utility and value: Income and substitution effects

    …purchasing power is called the income effect of the price change. Its effect via the relative price change is called the substitution effect. The division can be carried out graphically as follows: let the price of X increase so that the price line in Figure 7 moves from PP′ to…

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