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The current debt crisis has given rise to a debate about deeper fiscal integration in Europe. The view is widespread that moving towards a 'fiscal union' would have a stabilising effect in the event of macroeconomic shocks. In this paper we study the economic effects of introducing two elements...
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different normative focus of the two approaches and show that benefits have other aims than redistribution. Finally, our country …
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, we analyse the progressivity and redistribution induced by the tax benefit systems in the EUR-15 countries. We show that … the German system as a whole employs only a medium level of redistribution. However, this can be decomposed into a highly …
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Due to behavioral effects triggered by redistributional interventions, it is still an open question whether government policies are able to effectively reduce income inequality. We contribute to this research question by using different country-level data sources to study inequality trends in...
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intervention and redistribution. Due to obvious behavioral effects caused by redistribution, it is however not clear whether …. -- inequality ; redistribution ; social expenditure ; progressive taxation …
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intervention and redistribution. Due to obvious behavioral effects caused by redistribution, it is however not clear whether …
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Due to behavioral effects triggered by redistributional interventions, it is still an open question whether government policies are able to effectively reduce income inequality. We contribute to this research question by using different country-level data sources to study inequality trends in...
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the ongoing policy debate in Germany. In this paper, we compare the progressivity and redistribution induced by the tax … tax benefit systems in a common framework. We compute several measures of progressivity and redistribution for the whole … the countries according to their progressivity and level of redistribution. Our analysis shows that there is considerable …
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