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 …

before or after government redistribution, that is, inequality in market incomes, i.e. income derived before taxes and … to have contributed to rising market income inequality, while this was partly mitigated through government redistribution …

. Redistribution policies via taxes and transfers are a key tool to ensure the benefits of growth are more broadly distributed and the …

This paper produces a comprehensive assessment of income redistribution to the working-age population, covering OECD … countries over the last two decades. Redistribution is quantified as the relative reduction in market income inequality achieved … overall redistribution, the respective role of various categories of transfers for transfer redistribution; as well as …

redistribution. Migrant settlement and integration need to be better coordinated and adapted to individual starting points. The …

addition, taxes and transfers contribute less to income redistribution than in other OECD countries. If well designed, reforms …