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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 …
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one of 2011 being designed to have the largest fiscal gains. The latter also strengthened redistribution and achieved the …
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Families with children receive support from the tax-benefit system to a different extent across countries. In Spain, child poverty remains high as compared to other EU countries, possibly pointing to a weaker role of the public sector in providing income support to families with children. In...
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The paper collects comprehensive and detailed data on what 40 OECD and G20 economies do with the revenues from carbon taxes, emissions trading systems, and excise taxes on energy use. It notes that constraints – which can take the form of political commitments or legal earmarks – on revenue...
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goals in re-distribution and social welfare, encourage employment, accommodate business-competitiveness concerns and … reduction. This review particularly recommends shifting away from income taxation to indirect taxation, for instance by raising … reform to vehicle-related taxation. This Working Paper relates to the 2014 OECD Economic Survey of Australia (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-australia.htm). …
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The economic literature suggests that a revenue-neutral shift of tax revenues from income taxes to property taxes would increase GDP per capita in the medium term. This paper analyses for Ireland the consequences of such a shift in the tax mix. In particular, it examines whether this can be...
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, subjecting employer-provided fringe benefits and allowances to personal income taxation and reducing the exemptions from value …
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We develop a general equilibrium OLG model to evaluate a wide menu of popular redistributive policies in a unified context. We work in two steps: First, we study how initial conditions in human and financial capital, as inherited from family background, shape individuals' human capital, and...
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During the last decade, research on income inequality has paid special attention to top income earners. At the same time, top marginal tax rates on upper income earners have declined sharply in many OECD countries. Discussions are still open on the relationship between the increase of the income...
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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 …
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