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redistribution, that fiscal drag has a small regressive effect and that the implicit redistribution favours pensioners over private …
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This paper presents a novel technique to measure and compare the redistributive capacity of observed tax (or transfer) policies. The technique is based on income distribution simulations and controls for differences in pre-tax income distributions. It assumes that the only information on the...
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The distributional impacts of fiscal policies are instrumental in reducing inequality in countries like the Philippines, where inequality has been persistently high. This paper assesses how equitable various taxes and transfers in the Philippines are by deriving the elasticities of Atkinson and...
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North countries. This paper instead shifts the attention to the Global South, where research on the inequality-redistribution … nexus has been more limited. In doing so, it considers potential alternative explanations for variation in redistribution … inequality determines redistribution. In contrast they suggest that ethnic inequality matters more than income inequality for …
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This paper introduces preliminary evidence from a cross-country database of policy characteristics and potential uses of that database. While most databases have emphasized either the content of policies (e.g., size of government deficits) or countries&' formal institutions (e.g., political...
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We investigate the extent to which the intensity of political competition moderates the governance issues that arise in relation to Canada’s fiscal structure. By fiscal structure we mean three distinct but interrelated fiscal dimensions of the state: financial stability, long run size and...
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