one of 2011 being designed to have the largest fiscal gains. The latter also strengthened redistribution and achieved the … highest decrease in income inequality. The 2013 reform went to the opposite direction by reducing both the redistributive …

This paper provides an empirical investigation on the drivers of tax and transfer income redistribution to working …. The analytical approach is based on a reduced-form model of income redistribution which is estimated through cross …-country-time series regressions. The baseline model builds on the political economy literature of income redistribution and includes a set …

Luxembourg is a rich and fast-growing country. However, inequality of disposable incomes has trended up modestly over … inequality of market incomes is substantially reduced by large social transfers, but the risk of relative poverty still affects … tackle poverty traps would both reduce inequality and improve the labour supply of residents. Strong activation policies are …

Income inequality in Colombia has declined since the early 2000s but remains very high by international standards …. While most of the inequality originates from the labour market, wealth – and thus capital income – is also highly …

areas where incomes are relatively low. While it is most common to confine measures of inequality to national borders, the … most important. Inequality in Europe has risen quite substantially since the mid 1980s. While the EU enlargement process … has contributed to this, it is not the only explanation since inequality has also increased within a “core” of 8 European …

efficiency. Rapidly rising inequality and relative poverty from a historical low in the 1980s partly stem from ageing, changing … income shifting, increased inequality. Low intergenerational income mobility in the very top of the income distribution is a … redistribution. Migrant settlement and integration need to be better coordinated and adapted to individual starting points. The …

During the last decade, research on income inequality has paid special attention to top income earners. At the same …