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In recent years, policymakers across the globe have become increasingly interested in not only the revenue consequences of tax policies but also their distributional impacts: that is, their impacts on different segments of the population. Such evidence can promote a more equitable and...
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This article describes ZEW-EviSTA®, the microsimulation model developed and used at ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim. The model simulates the German tax and transfer system using household micro level data. By estimating fiscal effects, labor market outcomes as well as...
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taxation. Furthermore, from a Keynesian macroeconomic perspective redistribution may even be systematically conducive to growth … and employment. At the same time a change towards such a policy of redistribution may for some economies, particularly the … erhebliche Spielräume für steuerpolitische Umverteilung gibt. Zudem kann Umverteilung aus einer keynesianischen makroökonomischen …
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government redistribution to be a function of the income of the median voter. Because turnout has fallen drastically in the …
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The distributional impact of proposed reforms plays a central role in public debates around tax and transfer policy. We show that accounting for realistic patterns of mobility in employment, earnings and household circumstances over the life-cycle greatly affects our assessment of the...
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This paper examines the distributional impact of increases to out-of-work transfers, increases to work-contingent transfers, and increases in higher rates of income tax over the whole of life. We find that, in contrast to what is implied by standard snapshot analyses, increases to...
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