. However, they result in higher inequality and polarisation. Flat rates necessary to keep the inequality levels unchanged allow …

Liberal British or the Southern Greek financing system increases inequality and poverty, as well as labour supply incentives …. The introduction of the Social-democratic Danish financing system decreases inequality of incomes, but does not …

deal with vertical inequality - that is, fostering redistribution from the rich to the poor - less is known about their … performance in dealing with horizontal inequality, that is, in redistributing among socio-economic groups. In a context where … findings suggest that horizontal inequality is a dimension which policy makers should take into account when reforming tax and …