speed up the decline in inequality levels and reduce poverty. This study presents an exhaustive and comprehensive analysis …

This paper examines the impact of the introduction of the value-added tax on inequality and government revenues using … indicate that income-based inequality has increased due to the VAT adoption, whereas consumption inequality has remained …

We study the effects of corporate taxes on income inequality. Using state corporate taxes as a setting, we provide … evidence that corporate tax cuts lead to increases in income inequality. This result is robust across regression, matching, and …, while all earners appear to benefit from a corporate tax cut, the relation between tax cuts and inequality is positive, in …

transfers. The findings show that the system is progressive and contributes to reductions in poverty and inequality. The Gini …

inequality. To reduce the incidence of low-quality jobs, tax policy interventions should go hand in hand with more effective …

inequality, with government expenditures in the form of in-kind transfers leading to the largest decreases. While expenditures in …

coefficient over last four decades. This seems to suggest a robust empirical evidence that the growth or change in inequality … across nations has a negative relation with initial degree of inequality. This would imply that poorer nations starting with … higher degree of inequality experience weaker growth in inequality, exhibiting some sort of convergence in the inequality …