argue that conventional wisdom may be wrong. First, the extent and effectiveness of income redistribution and poverty … hand, and the extent and effectiveness of redistribution, on the other: government size is similar for Argentina and … Bolivia but they are on opposite sides in terms of the extent of redistribution. Fourth, due to indirect taxes households are …

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to …

Taxes and transfers can have significant impacts on poverty and inequality. All standard measures are by definition … transfers can lower inequality and poverty (including the severity of poverty) but still make a subgroup of the poor worse off … when standard poverty and inequality indicators decline and overall taxes are progressive. …

acknowledged approaches in the study of income inequality and redistribution: Kakwani’s (1984) decomposition of redistributive … inequality into contributions of different income components. The roles of taxes and benefits in achieving vertical, horizontal …

This paper contributes to the debate over the relationship between inequality and inclusive growth by testing the … proposition of a kinked-non linear relationship between income inequality and economic growth in a country specific context. The …. An inverted ``U'' shaped relationship is demonstrated, showing that low levels of inequality exert a positive correlation …

income redistribution across Mexican households during the last twenty years, since during this period the Mexican economy … Surveys, thus combining microdata, and inequality and redistributive indexes was possible to distinguish the progressivity … inequality improvements. …

The relationship between inequality and redistribution is usually studied under the assumption that the government … expenditure). We study the effects of inequality on the size (and structure) of redistributive programs in both perfectly … case and that in the latter case an increase in inequality can be associated with a fall in the tax rate. We find also that …

redistribution policy makes it possible to increase output per capita and to reduce inequality because both increase the educated …