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Korpi and Palme (1998) famously suggested the existence of a Paradox of Redistribution:although programs targeted to … harmonized by LIS. My results showthat the relationship between the redistribution obtained by social transfers and their pro … the rich are unable to reachdown the income ladder and remain stuck at very low levels of redistribution.This reflects how …
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The distributional impact of proposed reforms plays a central role in public debates around tax and transfer policy. We show that accounting for realistic patterns of mobility in employment, earnings and household circumstances over the life-cycle greatly affects our assessment of the...
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This paper examines the distributional impact of increases to out-of-work transfers, increases to work-contingent transfers, and increases in higher rates of income tax over the whole of life. We find that, in contrast to what is implied by standard snapshot analyses, increases to...
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(the child money program and the mortgage subsidy) do little redistribution-the latter is actually regressive-but represent …
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redistribution in a comparative setting for the period 1967-2014. We use micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) to examine … household primary income inequality and disposable income inequality, redistribution from transfers and income taxes, and the … underlying social programs that drive the changes. We offer detailed information of fiscal redistribution in 47 countries for the …
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