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Social spending generosity and income inequality: a dynamic panel approach
Niehues, Judith - 2010
on pre-government income inequality hints at substantial disincentive effects. -- social benefits ; redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009007489
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Social spending generosity and income inequality : a dynamic panel approach
Niehues, Judith - 2010 - This version: October 29, 2010
This paper explores whether more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if redistributive outcomes are offset by behavioral disincentive effects. To account for the inherent endogeneity of social policies with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008827068
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Household Incidence of Pollution Control Policies : A Robust Welfare Analysis Using General Equilibrium Effects
Araar, Abdelkrim; Dissou, Yazid; Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2014
This study assesses the incidence of pollution control policies on households. In contrast to previous studies, we employ an integrated framework combining a multisector general equilibrium model with a stochastic dominance analysis using household-level data. We consider three policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014217137
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Revisiting the impact of direct taxes and transfers on poverty and inequality in South Africa
Maboshe, Mashekwa; Woolard, Ingrid - 2018
of fiscal policy on income redistribution, and poverty in South Africa. We find, in accordance with previous research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011883375
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The effects of a hybrid negative income tax on poverty and inequality : a microsimulation on the UK and Italy
Tromp, Alexander - 2017
This paper aims to propose a social protection system that "decommodifies" labour and fulfills the properties of a Social Protection Floor satisfying revenue-neutrality. To this end, firstly, a Universal Basic Income (UBI) scheme is explored. Secondly, the UBI is transformed into a Negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011751668
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Collective negative shocks and preferences for redistribution : evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in Germany
Bellani, Luna; Fazio, Andrea; Scervini, Francesco - 2022
preferences for redistribution. Exploiting the plausibly exogenous change in severity of the infection rate at the county level …, we show that, contrary to some theoretical expectations, the worse the crisis, the lower the support for redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012800660
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"Social spending generosity and income inequality : a dynamic panel approach"
Niehues, Judith - 2010 - This version: 19th August 2010, preliminary version
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008934368
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The scope for progressive tax reform in the OECD countries : a macroeconomic perspective with a case study for Germany
Godar, Sarah; Paetz, Christoph; Truger, Achim - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519198
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Social Spending Generosity and Income Inequality: A Dynamic Panel Approach
Niehues, Judith - 2010
This paper explores whether more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if redistributive outcomes are offset by behavioral disincentive effects. To account for the inherent endogeneity of social policies with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600978
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Redistribution and Welfare : One Simulation of the Real Effects of the Reform of the Irpef (Redistribuzione E Welfare: Una Simulazione Degli Effetti Reali Della Riforma Dell'Irpef)
Russo, Felice - 2006
were the case, corrects for the pre-tax distributional differences between the latter. Standard results on redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014058752