We examine the relationship between changes in a country’s public sector fiscal position and inequality at the top and … bottom of the income distribution during the age of austerity (2006–13). We use a parametric Lorenz curve model and Gini …-like indices of inequality as our measures to assess distributional changes. Based on the EU’s Statistics on Income and Living …

Advanced economies have a significantly longer history of using fiscal policy to tackle inequality and promote … policy can have a significant effect on inequality which provides some cause for optimism about its equity …

Advanced economies have a significantly longer history of using fiscal policy to tackle inequality and promote … policy can have a significant effect on inequality which provides some cause for optimism about its equity …

interventions are therefore seen as instrumental in cushioning against the impact of the crisis on inequality and poverty. Finally …

Using comparable fiscal incidence analysis, this paper examines the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty … targeted at the rich. While fiscal policy always reduces inequality, this is not the case with poverty. Fiscal policy increases …

yield higher inequality as measured by the Gini (0-9 pc.pt. increase) and the top 1% and 10% income shares (0-5, and 1-5 pc … mismeasurement rise. Taxable income is subject to the highest inequality, which further undergoes the highest upward correction for … income has a strong equalizing impact of 3.3-4.5 points of the Gini further accentuated under the top-income corrections. The …

, that direct taxes and cash transfers are overall progressive and reduce inequality and poverty. Our disaggregated analyses …

The Great Recession and the widespread adoption of fiscal austerity policies have heightened concern about inequality …., 2017), the overall change in income inequality is decomposed into parts attributable to the change in market income … inequality, changes in discretionary tax-benefit policy and automatic stabilisation effects. We implement this approach using the …

The Great Recession and the widespread adoption of fiscal austerity policies have heightened concern about inequality …., 2017), the overall change in income inequality is decomposed into parts attributable to the change in market income … inequality, changes in discretionary tax-benefit policy and automatic stabilisation effects. We implement this approach using the …