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Redistributive effect and the progressivity of taxes and benefits: evidence for the UK, 1977-2018
Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2021
components using yearly UK data covering 1977-2018. We examine cash and in-kind benefits, and direct and indirect taxes. In … benefits are largely associated with cyclical changes in average benefit rates. In contrast, trends in the redistributive … effects of direct and indirect taxes are mostly associated with changes in progressivity. For in-kind benefits, changes in the …
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Redistribution, horizontal inequity, and reranking: direct taxation in the UK, 1977-2020
Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2023
give specific attention to the choice of the bandwidth used to define "close equals" in terms of pre-tax income. We also …
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Tony Atkinson and his legacy
Brandolini, Andrea; Jenkins, Stephen; Micklewright, John - 2017
Tony Atkinson is universally celebrated for his outstanding contributions to the measurement and analysis of inequality, but he never saw the study of inequality as a separate branch of economics. He was an economist in the classical sense, rejecting any sub-field labelling of his interests and...
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