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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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Budget Incidence Fiscal Redistribution Dataset on Relative Income Poverty (LLBIFR Dataset on Relative Income Poverty 2019 …
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The traditional way of measuring government redistribution across countries is to compare the income households report … problem, we offer an alternative to the conventional direct redistribution measure that considers claims to future income …
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We use a range of data sources to assess if, and to what extent, government redistribution policies have slowed or … redistribution systems in place, greater inequality automatically leads to more redistribution, even if no policy action is taken. We … redistribution. Between the mid-1990s and the mid-2000s, the redistributive strength of tax-benefit systems then weakened in many …
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We study the effect of power sharing over income redistribution among different socio-economic groups in a model of …
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Income inequality is rising but there seems to be no clear-cut effect on redistribution preferences, which is … differences in individual merit and it is primarily non-merit based inequality that affects redistribution preferences. This view … redistribution preferences and that it is a better predictor than previously used measures. This suggests that the socio …
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We re-analyze the major explanations of redistribution including the Meltzer-Richard (MR) model, power resources theory … that partisan government is directly related to redistribution and has a strong effect on the generosity of social policy …. Lupu and Pontusson's wage dispersion skew measure has no effect on redistribution but does have a positive effect on …
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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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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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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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