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Redistributive Effect and the Progressivity of Taxes and Benefits : Evidence for the UK, 1977-2018

Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2022

We apply the Kakwani approach to decomposing redistributive effect into average rate, progressivity, and reranking components using yearly UK data covering 1977-2018. We examine cash and in-kind benefits, and direct and indirect taxes. In addition, we highlight an empirical implementation issue...

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Preferences for Redistribution and Pensions : What Can We Learn from Experiments?

Tausch, Franziska - 2010

Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes and economic experiments have revealed that most … people have a preference for redistribution that is not merely inspired by self-interest. Interestingly, little is known on … evidence on preferences for redistribution and suggest some links to redistribution through pensions. For that purpose we …

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Distributional Effects of Competition : A Simulation Approach

Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Araar, Abdelkrim; … - 2021

power has become a policy priority. To fill this knowledge gap, this paper introduces a simple simulation method, the …

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Social Spending Generosity and Income Inequality : A Dynamic Panel Approach

Niehues, Judith - 2010

This paper explores if more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if redistributive outcomes are offset by behavioral disincentive effects. To account for the inherent endogeneity of social policies with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System GMM...

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Redistribution Policy and Inequality Reduction in OECD Countries : What Has Changed in Two Decades?

Immervoll, Herwig - 2011

We use a range of data sources to assess if, and to what extent, government redistribution policies have slowed or … redistribution systems in place, greater inequality automatically leads to more redistribution, even if no policy action is taken. We … redistribution. Between the mid-1990s and the mid-2000s, the redistributive strength of tax-benefit systems then weakened in many …

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Optimal Commodity Taxation and Redistribution within Households

Bargain, Olivier - 2011

Using a collective model of consumption, we characterize optimal commodity taxes aimed at targeting specific individuals within the household. The main message is that distortionary indirect taxation can circumvent the agency problem of the household. Essentially, taxation should discourage less...

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Distributional Impact Analysis : Toolkit and Illustrations of Impacts Beyond the Average Treatment Effect

Bedoya Arguelles, Guadalupe - 2018

Program evaluations often focus on average treatment effects. However, average treatment effects miss important aspects of policy evaluation, such as the impact on inequality and whether treatment harms some individuals. A growing literature develops methods to evaluate such issues by examining...

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Does International Outsourcing Really Lower Workers' Income?

Koskela, Erkki - 2010

We analyze the impact of international outsourcing on income, if the domestic labor market is imperfect. We distinguish in our analysis between the case where the parties negotiate over the wage only and where they negotiate over both wage and profit share. We find that in the first case...

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Preferences for Childcare Policies : Theory and Evidence

Borck, Rainald; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2021

We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from...

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Distributional Effects of Monetary Policy in Emerging Market Economies

Prasad, Eswar S. - 2015

We develop a two-sector, heterogeneous-agent model with incomplete financial markets to study the distributional effects and aggregate welfare implications of alternative monetary policy rules in emerging market economies. Relative to inflation targeting, exchange rate management benefits...

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