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Does inequality harm democracy? : an empirical investigation on the UK

Soci, Anna; Maccagnan, Anna; Mantovani, Daniela - 2014

This paper presents an empirical investigation about the effect of an increase in economic inequality on some aspects of the quality of a democracy. The main novelty of the paper lies in its methodology: it applies to a single country (instead of a pool of countries) - the UK - in a long run...

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The effect of changes in tax-benefit policies on the income distribution in 2008-2015

De Agostini, Paola; Paulus, Alari; Tasseva, Iva - 2016

We apply microsimulation techniques to estimate the first-order effects of tax-benefit policy changes since the beginning of the financial and economic crisis in 2008. Using the EU tax-benefit model EUROMOD in combination with the EU-SILC 2012 micro-data, we provide comparative estimates for...

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Net fiscal contributions in the EU : the role of indirect taxation and in-kind benefits

Christl, Michael; Köppl-Turyna, Monika - 2025

understanding of redistribution mechanisms within countries and facilitates crosscountry comparisons. As a first step, our analysis …

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Skewness, Tax Progression, and Demand for Redistribution : Evidence from the UK

Pogorelskiy, Kirill - 2018

We introduce a skewness-based approach to measure tax progression and demand for redistribution. We provide a political … redistribution (Meltzer and Richard, 1981) and the Prospect Of Upward Mobility (POUM) mechanism (Benabou and Ok, 2001), as well as … enough that the observed redistribution (or lack thereof) could be consistent with the POUM hypothesis, more recent periods …

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Universal independence income : a EUROMOD utopian simulation in the UK

Bonomi Bezzo, Franco - 2021

In this paper we want to provide an utopian attempt to tackle inequality and to tackle, most specifically, what we consider the cultural and ethical origin of inequality: paid work. We believe that a globalised world, structured around the asymmetry between an increasingly small number of...

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Indexing out of poverty? : fiscal drag and benefit erosion in cross-national perspective

Paulus, Alari; Sutherland, Holly; Tasseva, Iva - 2019

We assess how tax-benefit policy developments in 2001-2011 affected the household income distribution in seven EU countries. We use the standard microsimulation-based decomposition method, separating further the effect of structural policy changes and the uprating of monetary parameters, which...

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Does Inequality Harm Democracy? An Empirical Investigation on the UK

Soci, Anna; Maccagnan, Anna; Mantovani, Daniela - 2014

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Changes in income distribution and the role of tax-benefit policy during the great recession : an international perspective

Bargain, Olivier; Callan, Tim; Doorley, Karina; Keane, … - 2013

This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely France, Germany, the UK and Ireland, and the contribution of tax and benefit policy changes. The period examined, 2008 to 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear...

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Were we really all in it together? : the distributional effects of the 2010 - 2015 UK Coalition government's tax-benefit policy changes ; an end-of-term update

De Agostini, Paola; Hills, John; Sutherland, Holly - 2015

This paper examines the distributional impacts of the changes to benefits, tax credits, pensions and direct taxes between the UK Elections in May 2010 and in May 2015. It also looks ahead to the longer-term effects of changes and plans that were announced by the 2010-2015 Coalition government,...

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The effects of a hybrid negative income tax on poverty and inequality : a microsimulation on the UK and Italy

Tromp, Alexander - 2017

This paper aims to propose a social protection system that "decommodifies" labour and fulfills the properties of a Social Protection Floor satisfying revenue-neutrality. To this end, firstly, a Universal Basic Income (UBI) scheme is explored. Secondly, the UBI is transformed into a Negative...

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