We analyze underreported earnings and age-specific income redistribution in postsocialist economies. Pensions, other …

, we analyse the progressivity and redistribution induced by the tax benefit system in the EU-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 …

debate in Germany. In this paper, we compare the progressivity and redistribution induced by the tax benefit systems in the … systems in a common framework. We compute several measures of progressivity and redistribution for the whole tax benefit … according to their progressivity and level of redistribution. Our analysis shows that there is considerable variety with respect …

Einkommensverteilung und damit die Verteilung der Verfügungsgewalt über das Produktionsergebnis. Der erste Band der Sozialpolitischen … Studienreihe stellt eine gekürzte Fassung der WIFO-Studie "Umverteilung durch den Staat in Österreich" dar. Die zentralen … varying extents, and on the other hand it will again raise questions about the redistribution effects of taxes when it comes …

effect more than compensates for the decline in progressivity and leads to an overall increase of relevant redistribution …