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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income

Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria; … - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 16 (2025) 2, pp. 565-613

Individuals vary considerably in how much they earn during their lifetimes. This study examines the role of the tax‐and‐transfer system in mitigating such inequalities, which could otherwise lead to disparities in living standards. Utilizing a life‐cycle model, we determine that the...

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Is funding a large universal basic income feasible? : a quantitative analysis of UBI with endogenous labour supply

Ghatak, Maitreesh; Jaravel, Xavier - In: LSE public policy review 1 (2020) 2, pp. 1-11

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Government expenditure in the DINA framework : allocation methods and consequences for post-tax income inequality

Riedel, Lukas; Stichnoth, Holger - 2022

Constructing measures of post-tax income inequality that are consistent with national accounts requires the allocation of the entirety of government expenditure to individuals. About half of government expenditure in the United States takes the form of in-kind collective expenditure (e.g.,...

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The paradox of redistribution in time : social spending in 53 countries, 1967-2018

Garcia-Fuente, Xabier - 2021

Korpi and Palme (1998) famously suggested the existence of a Paradox of Redistribution:although programs targeted to … harmonized by LIS. My results showthat the relationship between the redistribution obtained by social transfers and their pro … the rich are unable to reachdown the income ladder and remain stuck at very low levels of redistribution.This reflects how …

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Aunified perspective on efficiency, redistribution, and public policy

Kaplow, Louis - In: National tax journal 73 (2020) 2, pp. 429-472

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Allocating collective expenditure : the case of education

Riedel, Lukas; Stichnoth, Holger - 2021

Creating distributional national accounts (DINA; e.g. Piketty, Saez, and Zucman 2018) requires the allocation of all government expenditure to individuals in order to compute their post-tax, post-transfer income. A sizeable part of government expenditure is in-kind spending, either in the form of...

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The contribution of tax-benefit instruments to income redistribution in Italy

Boscolo, Stefano - In: Economia pubblica : the Italian journal of public … 49 (2022) 2, pp. 181-231

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Chapter 24 Selfishness, altruism and normative principles in the economic analysis of social transfers

Blanchet, Didier; Fleurbaey, Marc - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1465-1503). 2006

additional limit to redistribution is the fact that even very altruistic agents can deliberately reduce its scope because of its …

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The distributional impacts of fiscal policy : the case of the Philippines

Son, Hyun H. - 2022

The distributional impacts of fiscal policies are instrumental in reducing inequality in countries like the Philippines, where inequality has been persistently high. This paper assesses how equitable various taxes and transfers in the Philippines are by deriving the elasticities of Atkinson and...

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Is redistributive policy of EU welfare state effective in tackling income inequality? : a panel data analysis

Wildowicz-Szumarska, Anna - In: Equilibrium : quarterly journal of economics and … 17 (2022) 1, pp. 81-101

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