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1 Μαΐ 2022 · This paper assesses the impact of tax reforms on income distribution in 45 developing countries. Tax reforms lower the disposable Gini index and increase income share of the bottom 10 percent. Improvement in income distribution is more when the economy is growing relatively slowly.
Straight income redistribution. Taxation and income transfers to the poorest segment of society are the most direct way to keep inequality in check and reduce poverty in the short term. These instruments are particularly appropriate when the benefits of growth fail to reach the poor.
23 Μαρ 2018 · Growing wealth inequality has become a key concern for economists, and tackling it requires a deep understanding of how tax and transfer systems affect the income distribution. Using OECD data, this column argues that taxes and transfers are less effective at reducing inequality today than they were in the mid-1990s.
14 Ιουλ 2020 · The reduction of tax impact on inequality in the last decades is due to two main facts: on the one hand, cuts in top income tax rates; on the other hand, the dissemination of semi-dual...
24 Δεκ 2020 · We compare the tax burden distribution across incomes and the income share distribution, based on a stochastic dominance approach. We find conditions to assess the progressivity of different sources of taxes, given knowledge of the income share elasticities, which measure the relative marginal change in the income share accruing to each class ...
27 Νοε 2023 · Tax revenue aggregates, by type of tax, are drawn from Bachas et al. (2022a), while pre-tax income distributions are available from the World Inequality Database. We distribute taxes and transfers using a common methodological framework – Distributional National Accounts (DINA; Blanchet et al. 2021) – which ensures that our estimates are ...
21 Δεκ 2017 · Redistribution is quantified as the relative reduction in market income inequality achieved by personal income taxes, employees’ social security contributions and cash transfers, based on household-level micro data.
