, revealing the contributions of different tax and benefit instruments. This new methodology brings together two widely … acknowledged approaches in the study of income inequality and redistribution: Kakwani’s (1984) decomposition of redistributive … inequality into contributions of different income components. The roles of taxes and benefits in achieving vertical, horizontal …

. Finally, after reviewing the benefits of using simulation games in NRM, the authors stress the ethical issue of changing … of Simulation & Gaming, some key features related to the implementation of gaming in such a context are introduced …

, with emphasis on tax incidence, redistribution and poverty analysis. It then discusses social welfare analysis permitted by …During the last 20 years, microsimulation models have been increasingly applied in qualitative and quantitative … analysis of public policies. This paper discusses microsimulation techniques and their theoretical background as a tool for the …

This paper analyses the effects of the recent Economic Crisis on individual preferences for redistribution in 23 … highly significant in increasing support for redistribution. It is found that more unemployment and, in particular, youth … unemployment has considerably raised the citizens’ demand for redistribution. …

agent of the economy. Moreover, such a policy decreases the tax rate of the pension system. …

linkbetween contributions and benefits has an impact on the level of capital per capita if and only if there are inequalities of …-benefitstructure. The tax rate and inequalities decrease, whereas the wealth of each agent increases. However, with a defined …

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to … disentangle mechanical effects due to changes in pre-tax incomes from direct effects of policy reforms. While tax reforms … effect at the lower half of the distribution, the disequalizing effects of Republican reforms are due to tax cuts for high …

redistribution. Controlling for a number of factors usually found to affect individual preferences in the literature, the egoistic … motives for redistribution are taken seriously and this article focuses on the role played by the occupational status of … presented here identifies which socio-political groups may be formed on the basis of their preferences for redistribution. …

The relationship between inequality and redistribution is usually studied under the assumption that the government … competitive and monopolistic settings. We find that the presence of monopoly results in a higher tax rate than in the competitive … case and that in the latter case an increase in inequality can be associated with a fall in the tax rate. We find also that …