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The tax structure of an economy in crisis : Greece 2009-2017
Leventi, Chrysa; Picos, Fidel - 2019
one of 2011 being designed to have the largest fiscal gains. The latter also strengthened redistribution and achieved the …
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Income support to families with children in Spain
Hernández, Adrian; Picos, Fidel - 2021
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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Making income and property taxes more growth-friendly and redistributive in India
Joumard, Isabelle; Thomas, Alastair; Morgavi, Hermes - 2017
Tax reforms are crucial to promoting inclusive growth in India. The replacement of a myriad of consumption taxes by a Goods and Services Tax (GST) will boost India's competitiveness, investment, job creation and tax compliance. The potential to raise additional revenue from taxes on goods and...
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Evaluating options for shifting tax burden to top income earners
Onrubia, Jorge; Picos, Fidel; Rodado, María del Carmen - 2016
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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Income redistribution through taxes and transfers across OECD countries
Causa, Orsetta; Hermansen, Mikkel Nørlem - 2017
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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An empirical investigation on the drivers of income redistribution across OECD countries
Causa, Orsetta; Vindics, Anna; Akgun, Oguzhan - 2018
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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Strengthening social cohesion in Luxembourg : making efficiency and equity go hand in hand
Fournier, Jean-Marc; García, Clara - 2013
Luxembourg is a rich and fast-growing country. However, inequality of disposable incomes has trended up modestly over the past decades and relative poverty has risen reflecting mainly the rapid growth of high incomes. The relatively high inequality of market incomes is substantially reduced by...
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The redistributive impact of taxes and transfers
Joumard, Isabelle; Londoño Vélez, Juliana - 2013
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 concentrated and the tax and transfer system has little...
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Income inequality in the European Union
Leyen, Kaja von der - 2012
Poor growth performance over the past decades in Europe has increased concerns for rising income dispersion and social exclusion. European authorities have recently launched the Europe 2020 strategy which aims to improve social inclusion in Europe on top of already existing European regional...
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The equity implications of fiscal consolidation
Rawdanowicz, Lukasz; Wurzel, Eckhard; Christensen, Ane … - 2013
In several OECD countries, ongoing fiscal consolidation might have a negative impact on the static income distribution. However, this conclusion should be treated only as an approximate first step in the analysis. A full assessment of distributional effects of consolidation packages would need...
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