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This papers quantifies the redistributive effects on progressivity, poverty and welfare, that would occur if the monetary benefits currently in place in the Spanish system were to be replaced by a neutral alternative in terms of spending, granting a universal basic income (UBI) to everyone. We...
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explicit income targeting. We find that with a few exceptions the impact of tax allowances and tax credits on inequality is …
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The systems of direct taxes and cash benefits in the 27 Member States of the European Union (EU) vary considerably in size and structure. We explore their redistributive effects using EUROMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the EU. As well as describing redistributive effects in...
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The Australian income tax and transfer system has undergone considerable reform since the mid 1980s. As a number of commentators have pointed out, one impact of reforms to cash transfers for families, as well as of some reforms to direct taxes, has been the evolution of a defacto system of...
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redistribution, that fiscal drag has a small regressive effect and that the implicit redistribution favours pensioners over private …
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redistribution. Although they are in most cases strongly progressive, the low redistributive effect is mainly due to their small size …
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In this paper we study the impact of tax-benefit systems on income inequality and work incentives across the 27 Member … Tax Rates.The extent to which tax-benefit systems contribute to income redistribution and provide work incentives at the … of a trade-off between income redistribution and work incentives across EU-27 countries. …
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The Great Recession and the widespread adoption of fiscal austerity policies have heightened concern about inequality …., 2017), the overall change in income inequality is decomposed into parts attributable to the change in market income … inequality, changes in discretionary tax-benefit policy and automatic stabilisation effects. We implement this approach using the …
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Spanish regions using EUROMOD. Our results show that the IMV reduces inequality and poverty - general and extreme - for all … level, although this power has not been as effective as it was expected in reducing inequality. This work also simulates the … effects on inequality and poverty that the elimination of current RMI and the introduction of the new IMV would generate …
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model for the EU. First, we briefly report the process of updating EUROMOD. We then present indicators for income inequality …
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