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The Determinants of Income Polarization on the Household and Country Level across the EU
Holzner, Mario - 2012
A multi-level approach to test for the determinants of income polarization both at the household as well as the country level is applied to a panel of about 300,000 households in EU countries over the period of 2003-2009. Among the policy relevant macro variables, higher progressive labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099922
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Enhancing the Effectiveness of Public Spending in Switzerland
Joumard, Isabelle - 2002
Switzerland is a highly decentralised country with large spending and revenue-raising powers devolved to cantons and municipalities. The federal system, in combination with an extensive use of direct democracy, has contributed to keep public spending at a relatively low level in international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444008
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The fiscal and equity impact of social tax expenditures in the EU
Barrios Cobos, Salvador; Coda Moscarola, Flavia; … - 2019
Tax expenditures are preferential tax treatments granted to specific individuals or categories of households which aim at achieving social and economic goals. They are widely used by EU Member States. However, their fiscal and equity impacts are not always clear and their effectiveness and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012125297
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Comparison of the Redistribution Level and Structure of Functional Expenditure in the Visegrád Countries
Kiss, Gábor P.; Szemere, Róbert - In: Public Finance Quarterly 57 (2012) 1, pp. 116-139
Our study aims to compare the level of redistribution, and expenditure structure of the Visegrád countries in the period between 1995–2010. For the purpose of comparability, the new methodology presented in the study filters out those components of total expenditures, which are exogenous in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010614480
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Fiscal Policy and Income Redistribution in Latin America: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom
Lustig, Nora; Pessino, Carola; Molina, George Gray; … - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2011
a unity is misleading. The (after direct taxes and transfers) Gini, for example, declines by over 10 percent in … Bolivia but they are on opposite sides in terms of the extent of redistribution.Fourth, due to indirect taxes households are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009358893
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Fiscal policy and income redistribution in Latin America: Challenging the conventional wisdom
Lustig, Nora - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
a unity is misleading. The (after direct taxes and transfers) Gini, for example, declines by over 10 percent in … Bolivia but they are on opposite sides in terms of the extent of redistribution. Fourth, due to indirect taxes households are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366275
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The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru: A Synthesis of Results
Lustig, Nora; Gray-Molina, George; Higgins, Sean; … - 2012
We apply a standard tax-and-benefit-incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes …, indirect taxes and subsidies, and social spending (cash and food transfers and in-kind transfers in education and health). The … extent of inequality reduction induced by direct taxes and transfers is rather small (2 percentage points on average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610689
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The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru: A Synthesis of Results
Lustig, Nora; Molina, George Gray; Higgins, Sean; … - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2012
We apply a standard tax and benefit incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes …, indirect taxes and subsidies, and social spending (cash and food transfers and in-kind transfers in education and health). The … extent of inequality reduction induced by direct taxes and transfers is rather small (2 percentage points on average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011161651
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The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru: A Synthesis of Results
Lustig, Nora; Gray-Molina, George; Higgins, Sean; … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012
We apply a standard tax and benefit incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes …, indirect taxes and subsidies, and social spending (cash and food transfers and in-kind transfers in education and health). The … extent of inequality reduction induced by direct taxes and transfers is rather small (2 percentage points on average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163079
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Inequality, Growth and Public Spending in Central, East and Southeast Europe
Holzner, Mario - 2010
The paper analyses the joint determinants of inequality and growth with a special emphasis on public spending structures in transition. The mutual benefit of low real interest rates, to both equity and economic development is a major result of this paper. In terms of public spending items we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099900