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Automatic Stabilizers, Economic Crisis and Income Distribution in Europe
Dolls, Mathias - 2010
This paper investigates to what extent the tax and transfer systems in Europe protect households at different income levels against losses in current income caused by economic downturns like the present financial crisis. We use a multi country micro simulation model to analyse how shocks on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143688
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Automatic Stabilizers, Economic Crisis and Income Distribution in Europe
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - In: Who loses in the downturn? : economic crisis, …, (pp. 227-255). 2011
This chapter investigates to what extent the tax and transfer systems in Europe protect households at different income levels against losses in current income caused by economic downturns like the present financial crisis. We use a multi-country microsimulation model to analyse how shocks on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015380155
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Measuring redistributive effects of taxes and benefits : beyond the proportionality standard
Urban, Ivica - In: FinanzArchiv : European journal of public finance 75 (2019) 4, pp. 413-443
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168057
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The budgetary and redistributive impact of pension taxation in the EU : a microsimulation analysis
Ivaškaite-Tamošiune, Viginta; Thiemann, Andreas - 2021
Pension taxation has large budgetary and distributional effects, in particular in the light of ageing societies and the importance of pension benefits in old-age income. This paper investigates the impact of taxing public and mandatory occupational old-age pensions in the EU, focusing on both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012593837
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The assignment of the income redistribution policy in the presence of migration
Brosio, Giorgio; Revelli, Federico - In: European governance, (pp. 149-166). 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001930769
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How Progressive is Germany? Comparing the Redistributive Effects of Tax Benefit Systems in Europe (Wie progressiv ist Deutschland? Das Steuer - und Transfersystem im europäischen Vergleich)
Peichl, Andreas; Schaefer, Thilo - 2008
the ongoing policy debate in Germany. In this paper, we compare the progressivity and redistribution induced by the tax … tax benefit systems in a common framework. We compute several measures of progressivity and redistribution for the whole … the countries according to their progressivity and level of redistribution. Our analysis shows that there is considerable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014218385
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Social Spending Generosity and Income Inequality : A Dynamic Panel Approach
Niehues, Judith - 2011
This paper explores whether 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132275
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138256
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Social spending generosity and income inequality: a dynamic panel approach
Niehues, Judith - 2010
on pre-government income inequality hints at substantial disincentive effects. -- social benefits ; redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009007489