Similar Search Results

The Redistributive Effect of Health Care Finance in Palestine : A Decomposition Analysis Approach

Abu-Zaineh, Mohammad; Mataria, Awad; Luchini, Stéphane; … - 2007

This paper applies a new methodology to decompose the overall redistributive effect (RE) of health care finance on income distribution. Contrary to most previous studies, the RE of various financing schemes are disentangled and estimated as sample statistics to reveal the vertical and horizontal...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014049863

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

Local Distributional Effects of Government Cash Transfers in Chile

Agostini, Claudio A.; Brown, Phil - 2007

Despite rapid economic growth and poverty reduction, inequality in Chile has remained high and remarkably constant over the last 20 years, prompting academic and public interest in the subject. Due to data limitations, however, research on inequality in Chile has concentrated on the national and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014223890

Redistribution Effects of Energy and Climate Policy : The Electricity Market

Hirth, Lion; Ueckerdt, Falko - 2015

policies redistribute wealth between consumers and producers, and within these groups. While redistribution is seldom the focus … the redistribution effects of two major electricity policies: support schemes for renewable energy sources, and CO2 … pricing. We find that the redistribution effects of both policies are large, and they work in opposed directions: while …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014162886

Informality, consumption taxes and redistribution

Bachas, Pierre; Gadenne, Lucie; Jensen, Anders - 2022

Can taxes on consumption redistribute in developing countries? Contrary to consensus, we show that taxing consumption is progressive once we account for informal consumption. Using household expenditure surveys in 32 countries we proxy for informal consumption using the type of store where...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013465637

Conditionality as Targeting? : Participation and Distributional Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers

Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos - 2017

Conditional cash transfer programs, whereby transfers to households are conditional on school attendance or health checkups, have become a widespread policy tool. They are viewed as a means of immediate poverty alleviation through the cash payments, and as a foundation of long-term poverty...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965678

The Distributional Impact of Taxes and Transfers in Poland

Goraus-Tanska, Karolina - 2017

This paper assesses the impact of fiscal policy on the incidence, depth, and severity of poverty, and examines whether there is room for an increased role for fiscal policy in improving the wellbeing of the poor. The results show that the combined effect of taxes and social spending helped...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968208

Monetary Policy and the Redistribution Channel

Auclert, Adrien - 2017

This paper evaluates the role of redistribution in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy to consumption. Three …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955443

Measuring the Redistributive Effects of China's Personal Income Tax

Du, Li - 2018

Personal income tax is a commonly used redistributive instrument to deal with inequality. Whether it achieves that efficacy requires an appropriate measurement. This paper aims to examine the redistributive effects of personal income tax (PIT) based on the generalized entropy indexes. Compared...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917764

Regional Risk Sharing and Redistribution - The Role of Fiscal Mechanisms in Switzerland

Feld, Lars P. - 2018

This paper analyses the importance of fiscal mechanisms for regional risk sharing and redistribution in Switzerland …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012921275