Fiscal redistribution in the developed countries: new insights from the Luxembourg Income Study1

Mahler, Vincent A.; Jesuit, David K.

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“…The second measure of targeting is the Targeting Ratio, which follows the literature on "targeting efficiency" (Creedy 1996;Kakwani and Subbarao 2007;Mahler and Jesuit 2006) and 5 Slightly more than a third of the sample has a child under 5 and the average single mother household has 1.7 children (see Table 1). We define targeted benefits for a mother with a child under 3 because this maximizes the value of targeted benefits, giving this measure the best chance of being consequential (i.e., countries usually give greater benefits for young children).…”

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Targeting, Universalism, and Single-Mother Poverty: A Multilevel Analysis Across 18 Affluent Democracies

2012

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in TARGETING, UNIVERSALISM AND SINGLE MOTHER POVERTY: A MULTI-LEVEL ANALYSIS ACROSS 18 AFFLUENT DEMOCRACIES ABSTRACTWe examine the influence of individual characteristics and targeted and universal social policy on single mother poverty with a multi-level analysis across 18 affluent democracies. Although single mothers are disproportionately poor in all countries, there is even more cross-national variation in single mother poverty than for poverty among the overall population. By far, the U.S. has the highest rate of poverty among single mothers. The analyses show that single mother poverty is a function of the household's employment, education, age composition, and the presence of other adults. Beyond individual characteristics, social policy exerts substantial influence on single mother poverty. We find that two measures of universal social policy significantly reduce single mother poverty. Alternatively, one measure of targeted social policy does not have significant effects, while another measure is only significantly negative when controlling for universal social policy. Moreover, the effects of universal social policy are larger. Additional analyses show that universal social policy does not have counterproductive consequences in terms of family structure or employment, while the results are less clear for targeted social policy. Although debates often focus on altering the behavior or characteristics of single mothers, welfare universalism could be an even more effective anti-poverty strategy. 2 TARGETING, UNIVERSALISM AND SINGLE MOTHER POVERTY: A MULTI-LEVEL ANALYSIS ACROSS 18 AFFLUENT DEMOCRACIES

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“…others' estimation of benefits in the micro-data of the LIS (Behrendt 2000;Mahler and Jesuit 2006;Smeeding 2006). This measure calculates the equivalized value of total government assistance received by single mother and all households in each country in the LIS.…”

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Targeting, Universalism, and Single-Mother Poverty: A Multilevel Analysis Across 18 Affluent Democracies

2012

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“…It may seem obvious that tax and transfer policy decisions thus determine redistributive outcomes (Mahler & Jesuit 2006). Yet the study of redistribution preferences has focused either on policy-free attitudes about the government's responsibility for reducing income differences (Cusack, Iversen & Rehm 2005;Rehm 2009), or attitudes towards particular spending policies in isolation (Iversen & Soskice 2001;Rehm 2011;Gingrich & Ansell 2012).…”

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The size and shape of government: preferences over redistributive tax policy

Barnes

2014

Socio-Economic Review

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“…For example, Mahler and Jesuit (2006) and Wang et al (2012) use household survey data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) to analyse redistributive effects in the OECD countries and Fuest et al (2010) and Atta-Darkua and Barnard (2010) use the SILC data for EU countries. However, microsimulation methods can often add to the scope and detail of the analysis, e.g.…”

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Microsimulation and Policy Analysis

Figari

Paulus

Sutherland

2015

Handbook of Income Distribution

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ISER Working Paper Series www.iser.essex.ac.uk Microsimulation and Policy AnalysisNon-technical summary This paper is prepared as a chapter forthcoming in the Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2 (edited by A. B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon, Elsevier-North Holland). Microsimulation methods are increasingly used to study the effects of policies on the income distribution contributing both to policy debates and academic literature. In general terms, microsimulation refers to modelling changes in the state or behaviour of micro-level units. We provide an overview of approaches that address questions related to the impact of taxbenefit policies on household income distribution. We first discuss how microsimulation modelling contributes to the analysis of the income distribution more broadly, pointing out that it can enrich survey and administrative data by checking its consistency, adding further details and enhancing analytical flexibility. In addition, it provides the basis for calculating indicators that cannot otherwise be estimated directly from micro-data such as measures of work incentives, net support for children and automatic stabilisers embedded in tax-benefit systems. We then focus more specifically on the role of microsimulation in policy evaluation. Taxbenefit models can provide information on household disposable income and its components under various policy scenarios and as such constitute a unique tool for ex ante policy analysis, though equally can be used for ex post analysis. We review the formal framework underlying such microsimulation-based decomposition analysis of income distribution and suggest a broader perspective to accommodate a wider range of applications. Our main emphasis is on static modelling methods, though we also consider extensions accounting for behavioural reactions and links with macroeconomic models. As microsimulation models are often concerned with current and future policies, we discuss various approaches to predict the income distribution given that data providing information on the current situation becomes available with a time lag, distinguishing between nowcasting and forecasting. We emphasise the role of comparative analysis as cross-country differences in tax-benefit systems and population structures provide a basis to assess the robustness of results and generalise conclusions. We provide empirical illustrations drawing mainly on analysis using the EU-wide tax-benefit model EUROMOD. Covering 27 countries and made generally accessible this is now one of the most widely used models. There are many remaining challenges to providing estimates of the effects of policy and policy changes that can be used with confidence within policy analysis and we consider three major issues: reconciling the simulated income distribution and that measured using the original micro-data; accounting for benefit non take-up and tax non-compliance, as well as validating and assessing the statistical reliability of microsimulation estimates. While our main focus is on the distributio...

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Fiscal redistribution in the developed countries: new insights from the Luxembourg Income Study1

Cited by 205 publications

References 37 publications

Targeting, Universalism, and Single-Mother Poverty: A Multilevel Analysis Across 18 Affluent Democracies

Targeting, Universalism, and Single-Mother Poverty: A Multilevel Analysis Across 18 Affluent Democracies

The size and shape of government: preferences over redistributive tax policy

Microsimulation and Policy Analysis

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