/GDP ratio. If the great recession did not occur, poverty and inequality would have been significantly reduced by the RSA reform. …

more targeted benefit schemes. Using the European tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD, this paper aims to compare the …

In this paper we look at lifetime inequality to address two main questions: How well does a modern tax system, based on … annual information, target lifetime inequality? What aspects of the tranfser system are most progressive from a lifetime … perspective? To answer to these questions it is crucial to relate lifetime and annual inequality and determine the main building …

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

deserve tax breaks. We demonstrate that the German tax-transfer system conflicts with a welfarist inequality averse social … planner. It is consistent with a planner who is averse to both inequality and high tax liabilities. The tax-transfer schedule … European countries and the USA and show that their redistributive systems can be rationalized with an inequality averse social …

life-cycle model, we find that redistribution by taxes and transfers off sets 54% of the inequality in lifetime earnings …