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Disentangling income inequality and the redistributive effect of taxes and transfers in 20 LIS countries over time
Caminada, Koen; Goudswaard, Kees; Wang, Chen - 2012
In most OECD countries the gap between rich and poor has widened over the past decades. This paper analyzes whether and to what extent taxes and social transfers have contributed to this trend. Has the redistributive power of different social programs changed over time? The paper contributes to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335525
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Australia : Inequality and Prosperity and their Impacts in a Radical Welfare State
Whiteford, Peter - 2021
Over the past forty years the economic fortunes of Australian households have fallen into two fairly distinct periods. In the “disappointing decades” of the 1970s and 1980s, real wages stagnated, unemployment increased fourfold and male full-time employment as a proportion of the population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216300
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Relative income poverty rates and poverty alleviation via tax/benefit systems in 49 LIS countries, 1967 2016
Caminada, Koen; Wang, Jinxian; Goudswaard, Kees Pieter; … - 2019
Most welfare states design their tax/benefit system to combat income poverty. Some countries are more effective in poverty alleviation than others. What can explain these variations in outcomes and effectiveness? And has the redistributive power of different social programs changed over time and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012009221
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Disentangling Income Inequality and the Redistributive Effect of Social Transfers and Taxes in 36 LIS Countries
Wang, Chen - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067560
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Decomposing Income Polarization and Tax-Benefit Changes Across 31 European Countries and Europe Wide, 2004-2012
Wang, Jinxian - 2015
literature has been devoted to the changes in income polarization across countries over time, especially within Europe. Moreover …: polarization. Rising income polarization has been observed outside Europe, but within the EU, polarization is relatively unexplored … Europe-wide, using a decomposition technique we developed. The main conclusions are:(1) Income polarization is rather stable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017459
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Disentangling income inequality and the redistributive effect of social transfers and taxes in 36 LIS countries
Wang, Chen; Caminada, Koen - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010217847
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Welfare Reform in the United States : A Descriptive Policy Analysis
Martin, Megan - 2010
Poverty alleviation is an important objective of European countries and of the United States. If these ‘rich' states offer elaborate systems of income maintenance, why is there still a considerable amount of poverty? And why are anti-poverty outcomes so different in the United States compared...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147778
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Baseline results from EUROMOD : 2006 - 2009 policies
Avram, Silvia; Sutherland, Holly - 2012
The aim of the paper is to provide a description of the latest public release of EUROMOD (version F5.0), a microsimulation model of taxes and benefits in the EU. After giving a brief account of the process of constructing EUROMOD, we present headline indicators for income inequality and risk of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009520175
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The distributional effects of tax-benefit policies under new labour : a shapley decomposition
Bargain, Olivier - 2009
Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it possible to disentangle and quantify the relative effect of tax-benefit policy changes, compared to all other effects including shifts in the distribution of market income....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003870842
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The distributional effects of tax-benefit policies under new labour : a Shapley decomposition
Bargain, Olivier - 2009
Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it possible to disentangle and quantify the relative effect of tax-benefit policy changes, compared to all other effects including shifts in the distribution of market income....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725006