This paper explores the nexus between the phenomenon of increasing income inequality and redistributive effects of the … difference between inequality of market incomes and disposable incomes. Moreover, this paper will try to estimate the … that the public sector still reduces market income inequality significantly but to a lower extent than in the previous …

We solve the problem of a social planner who seeks to minimize inequality via transfers with a fixed public budget in a …

household primary income inequality and disposable income inequality, redistribution from transfers and income taxes, and the … LIS Budget Incidence Fiscal Redistribution Dataset on Income Inequality (LLBIFR Dataset on Income Inequality 2017) allows … redistribution in a comparative setting for the period 1967-2014. We use micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) to examine …

countries over the last two decades. Redistribution is quantified as the relative reduction in market income inequality achieved …This paper produces a comprehensive assessment of income redistribution to the working-age population, covering OECD … overall redistribution, the respective role of various categories of transfers for transfer redistribution; as well as …

unselfish though rational demand for redistribution. This leads the well off to prefer higher taxes and the poor to reject … redistribution by individuals with high income and to a lower demand for redistribution by those with low income. …

1998-2001 period have offset the increase in inequality that would have occurred otherwise. They also contribute to a … policy changes. -- Tax-benefit policy ; Inequality ; Poverty ; Shapley value decomposition ; Labour supply ; Behavioural …