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 …

An issue of interest in the literature that explores the drivers of inequality is the distributional bearing of tax and … by a tax and transfer system. We apply this approach to UK data reported at annual intervals between 1968 and 2015 …, documenting remarkable improvements in tax and transfer treatment enjoyed by some population subgroups - particularly families …

This paper analyzes the relationship between economic growth, inequality and redistribution. In a cross-country setting … the short run. To estimate the impact of redistribution to low-income earners, we introduce a new measure, the so …-called net benefit share (NBS). Contrary to other findings, we show that this (targeted) redistribution to lowincome earners (Q1 …