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Four levers of redistribution : the impact of tax and transfer systems on inequality reduction

Guillaud, Elvire; Olckers, Matthew; Zemmour, Michaël - 2017

Using observational micro data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), we assess the redistributive impact of tax and transfer configurations across 22 OECD countries for the period 1999-2013. After recovering new tax data (employer social contributions), we measure the reduction of income...

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The atlas of inequality aversion : theory and empirical evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study Database

Kot, Stanisław Maciej; Paradowski, Piotr R. - 2022

In the distributive analysis, the constant relative inequality aversion utility function is a standard tool for ethical judgements of income distributions. The sole parameter ε of this function expresses a society’s aversion to inequality. However, the profession has not committed to the...

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Misperceptions of income distributions : cross-country evidence from a randomized survey experiment

Bublitz, Elisabeth - 2017

Meltzer and Richard (1981), higher initial inequality levels do not correlate positively with redistribution. I conduct a … misperceptions slightly shifts the demand towards less redistribution in Germany and Russia which appears to be driven by respondents … redistribution across countries. The treatment also alters trust levels in government and beliefs about the importance of luck but …

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Women in the top of the income distribution : what can we learn from LIS-data?

Bobilev, Roman; Boschini, Anne; Roine, Jesper - 2019

We explore the extent to which LIS-data can be used to shed light on the presence of women in the top of the income distribution. We show developments of the share of women in top groups (P90-100 and P99-100) of the labour income distribution for 28 countries and, when possible, compare to...

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A fresh look at an old question : is pro-poor targeting of cash transfers more effective than universal systems at reducing inequality and poverty?

McKnight, Abigail - 2015

This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty reduction in four EU countries - the UK, Italy, Sweden and France. We use long time series (spanning four decades) to examine trends within countries over time and between...

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Pension income inequality : a cohort study in six European countries

Neugschwender, Jörg - 2014

This paper is an empirical overview of inequalities of pension outcomes in six European countries, which are shaped by a variety of institutional pensions schemes. The study contrasts pension system regulation in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the United Kingdom; and analyses their...

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Pension institutions and income inequality across European societies : Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom

Neugschwender, Jörg - 2015

This paper analyses major pension system regulation in four European countries: Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. It is focused on the government's and social partner's efforts to provide old-age security benefits, and how these regulatory approaches have shaped the current...

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The paradox of redistribution in time : social spending in 53 countries, 1967-2018

Garcia-Fuente, Xabier - 2021

Korpi and Palme (1998) famously suggested the existence of a Paradox of Redistribution:although programs targeted to … harmonized by LIS. My results showthat the relationship between the redistribution obtained by social transfers and their pro … the rich are unable to reachdown the income ladder and remain stuck at very low levels of redistribution.This reflects how …

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Taxation of families and "families of taxation"? : inequality modification between family types across welfare states

Schechtl, Manuel - 2020 - This version: 22.07.2020

Previous sociological research has overlooked the fact that a welfare state’s tax system does not solely redistribute from rich to poor (vertical) but also between family types (horizontal). Different types of families are treated differently due to (de-)familialization policies in the tax...

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The political economy of compensatory redistribution : unemployment, inequality and policy choice

Pontusson, Jonas; Weisstanner, David - 2016

This paper explores common trends in inequality and redistribution across OECD countries from the late 1980s to 2013 …. Most countries retreated from redistribution from the mid‐1990s until the onset of the Great Recession and compensatory … redistribution in response to rising unemployment was weaker in 2008‐13 than in the first half of the 1990s. As unemployment and …

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