This paper provides an empirical investigation on the drivers of tax and transfer income redistribution to working …. The analytical approach is based on a reduced-form model of income redistribution which is estimated through cross …-country-time series regressions. The baseline model builds on the political economy literature of income redistribution and includes a set …

the relationship between income redistribution (measured by the ratio of the income distribution resulting from market … processes and the income distribution after redistribution) and ethno-linguistic fractionalization. We find that the impact of … ethno-linguistic fractionalization on income redistribution is conditional on the level of economic freedom: countries that …

. Redistribution policies via taxes and transfers are a key tool to ensure the benefits of growth are more broadly distributed and the …

before or after government redistribution, that is, inequality in market incomes, i.e. income derived before taxes and … to have contributed to rising market income inequality, while this was partly mitigated through government redistribution …

blocks of lifetime disparities. We look at lifetime inequality and the redistribution properties of taxes and benefits using … the lowest earnings capacity, the tax and benefits system does achieve life-cycle redistribution. Other policies like …

This paper produces a comprehensive assessment of income redistribution to the working-age population, covering OECD … countries over the last two decades. Redistribution is quantified as the relative reduction in market income inequality achieved … overall redistribution, the respective role of various categories of transfers for transfer redistribution; as well as …