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Mobility and the lifetime distributional impact of tax and transfer reforms

Levell, Peter; Roantree, Barra; Shaw, Jonathan - 2016

The distributional impact of proposed reforms plays a central role in public debates around tax and transfer policy. We show that accounting for realistic patterns of mobility in employment, earnings and household circumstances over the life-cycle greatly affects our assessment of the...

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Mobility and the lifetime distributional impact of tax and transfer reforms

Levell, Peter; Roantree, Barra; Shaw, Jonathan - 2017

This paper examines the distributional impact of increases to out-of-work transfers, increases to work-contingent transfers, and increases in higher rates of income tax over the whole of life. We find that, in contrast to what is implied by standard snapshot analyses, increases to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011718884

Cash and pensions : have the elderly in England saved optimally for retirement

Crawford, Rowena; O'Dea, Cormac - 2014

Using a model where households can save in either a safe asset or in an illiquid, tax-advantaged pension, we assess the extent to which those who recently reached the state pension age in the UK have saved optimally for retirement. The policy environment specified closely matches that prevailing...

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Divided by choice? : private providers, patient choice and hospital sorting in the English National Health Service

Beckert, Walter; Kelly, Elaine - 2017

A common reform used to increase consumer choice and competition in public services has been to allow private providers to compete with public incumbents. However, there remains a concern that not all consumers are able to benefit equally from wider choice. We consider the case of publicly...

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Measuring living standards with income and consumption : evidence from the UK

Brewer, Mike; O'Dea, Cormac - 2012

one gets about trends in the level and inequality of living standards in the UK when using consumption, and when one adds …

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Two decades of income inequality in Britain : the role of wages, household earnings and redistribution

Belfield, Chris; Blundell, Richard W.; Cribb, Jonathan; … - 2017

We study earnings and income inequality in Britain over the past two decades, including the period of relatively … the "new inequality" at the very top. Household earnings inequality has risen, driven by male earnings - although a 'catch …-up' of female earnings did hold down individual earnings inequality and reduce within-household inequality. Nevertheless, net …

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Value added tax policy and the case for uniformity : empirical evidence from Mexico

Abramovsky, Laura; Attanasio, Orazio P.; Phillips, David - 2015

Value added taxes (VAT) are an important, and in many cases increasing, source of revenue in both developed and developing countries. Unsurprisingly there is an intense academic and policy debate about the appropriate VAT rate structure, for both equity and efficiency reasons. In this paper we...

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Consumer demand system estimation and value added tax reforms in the Czech Republic

Janský, Petr P. J. - 2013

Reforms of indirect taxes, such as the recent changes in rates of value added tax (VAT) in the Czech Republic, change prices of products and services to which households can respond by adjusting their expenditures. I estimate the behavioural response of consumers to price changes in the Czech...

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Heterogeneity in time preference in older households

Bozio, Antoine; Laroque, Guy; O'Dea, Cormac - 2013

This paper suggests a method for estimating the distribution of discount rates using panel data on income and wealth. Using the English Longitudinal Survey of Ageing (ELSA), a representative sample of the English popularion over age 50, we general panel date on total consumption from the...

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Retirement sorted? : the adequacy and optimality of wealth among the near-retired

Crawford, Rowena; O'Dea, Cormac - 2014

Much of the focus of the UK pensions policy debate over the past decade has been on the adequacy (or otherwise) of private retirement saving. In this paper, we present the first assessment of the optimality of the retirement resources of English couple households born in the 1940s. Here,...

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