Baer, Werner; Galvão Jr., Antonio Fialho - In: The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 48 (2008) 2, pp. 345-358
This article attempts to explain the seeming paradox of a country with a high tax burden and a continually concentrated distribution of income. By means of a structural quantile regression model we analyze the distributional impact of government expenditures on the Gini index, and it is shown...