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Inequality and poverty in the United States : public policies for inclusive growth

Denk, Oliver; Hagemann, Robert P.; Lenain, Patrick; … - 2013

addition, taxes and transfers contribute less to income redistribution than in other OECD countries. If well designed, reforms …

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Income redistribution via taxes and transfers across OECD countries

Joumard, Isabelle; Pisu, Mauro; Bloch, Debbie - 2012

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An empirical investigation on the drivers of income redistribution across OECD countries

Causa, Orsetta; Vindics, Anna; Akgun, Oguzhan - 2018

This paper provides an empirical investigation on the drivers of tax and transfer income redistribution to working …. The analytical approach is based on a reduced-form model of income redistribution which is estimated through cross …-country-time series regressions. The baseline model builds on the political economy literature of income redistribution and includes a set …

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Income redistribution through taxes and transfers across OECD countries

Causa, Orsetta; Hermansen, Mikkel Nørlem - 2017

This paper produces a comprehensive assessment of income redistribution to the working-age population, covering OECD … countries over the last two decades. Redistribution is quantified as the relative reduction in market income inequality achieved … overall redistribution, the respective role of various categories of transfers for transfer redistribution; as well as …

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The redistributive impact of taxes and transfers

Joumard, Isabelle; Londoño Vélez, Juliana - 2013

Income inequality in Colombia has declined since the early 2000s but remains very high by international standards. While most of the inequality originates from the labour market, wealth – and thus capital income – is also highly concentrated and the tax and transfer system has little...

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Dividing the pie in Brazil : income distribution, social policies and the new middle class

Arnold, Jens Matthias; Jalles, João Tovar - 2014

Brazil has made remarkable progress in reducing poverty and inequality. This reduction is explained by strong growth but also by effective social policies. Besides growth, public services and cash transfers have played the biggest role, the latter notably through the successful “Bolsa...

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The deterioration of the public spending mix during the global financial crisis : insights from new indicators

Bloch, Debra; Fournier, Jean-Marc - 2018

New indicators measuring the effects of public spending on inclusive growth have been constructed using recent empirical work by Fournier and Johansson (2016) and a recent public finance dataset (Bloch et al., 2016). A first set of indicators combines information on the mix of public spending....

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Benefitting from globalisation and technological change in Australia

Sila, Urban; Hemmings, Philip J. - 2019

Australia has seen large rises in living standards over the last decades across the whole of the income distribution. Technological change and international trade have contributed to this success, but have also brought structural change. Some industries have declined, while others flourished....

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Local taxation, land use regulation, and land use : a survey of the evidence

Blöchliger, Hansjörg; Hilber, Christian; Schöni, Olivier - 2017

This paper surveys the theoretical and empirical research on the relationship between local taxation, land use regulation and land use patterns. The findings can be summarized as follows: 1) In more fiscally decentralized settings, sub-national land use regulation and fiscal policies encourage...

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Trends in public finance : insights from a new detailed dataset

Bloch, Debra; Fournier, Jean-Marc; Gonçalves, Duarte; … - 2016

To investigate how public finances could best be designed to promote long-run growth and address inequality, it is essential to have comprehensive, cross-country comparable data on government spending and revenues, along with structural and policy indicators. By identifying key variables of...

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