We analyse the effect of taxes and benefits on income distribution of six Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia … importance of tax-benefit instruments across countries and on the effect of taxes and benefits on poverty and inequality. The …

The aim of this paper is to explore the redistributive effects of taxes and benefits in Ecuador using two different … approaches: direct use of reported taxes and benefits in household survey data, and use of simulated taxes and benefits obtained … from ECUAMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ecuador. Our results show that simulated taxes and social insurance …

higher levels of education (there are 30 times as many schools offering grade 1 than grade 12) and receives education of a …

substantially reduce poverty and inequality to varying degrees depending on the taxes and transfers used. …

points to divergence: communities with more education in 1961 also had higher educational attainment in 2001. Also, while …

This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records … from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education … returns to education for the period 2005-10 largest for the 5th and 10th percentiles. Inequality decreased from the lower to …

intensity are associated with lower wages. While the return to education has become the largest contributor to wage inequality …

education's equalizing effect across high- and low-income countries. Our results are largely robust to changing the underlying …