compensated by a revenue-neutral reduction in income-related taxes. Based on a dual data base and a microsimulation model of labor … on inequality and progressivity become substantially lower when payroll taxes are reduced, which is due to increased work …

other benefits, including greatly reduced administrative complexity and cost. Using microsimulation analysis in a …

Studies have shown that the previously growing inequality in China has stabilized and even declined since 2008 (Kanbur … et al., 2021), nevertheless, the drivers of the latest trans-formation in income inequality remain to be unraveled. We … from 2010 to 2016. We apply the distributional decomposition method proposed by Bourguignon et al. (2008) and Sologon et al …

In this paper, we study how the tax-and-transfer system reduces the inequality of lifetime income by redistributing … offsets around half of the inequality in lifetime earnings that is due to differences in skill endowments. At the same time …, taxes and transfers mitigate around 60% of the inequality in lifetime earnings that is attributable to employment and health …

-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade …