Household Incomes and Redistribution in the European Union: Quantifying the Equalizing Properties of Taxes and Benefits

Immervoll, Herwig; Levy, Horácio; Lietz, Christine; Mantovani, Daniela; O’Donoghue, Cathal; Sutherland, Holly; Verbist, Gerlinde

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“…At the same time, we do take into account the effect of taxes paid on benefits. For an analysis of the joint effect of taxes and social benefits, we refer to Immervoll et al (2006) and Immervoll and Richardson (2011). The latter is one of the few studies that investigates the redistributive impact of taxes and benefits over time, using data from LIS, but they focus on the workingage population only.…”

Section: Euromodmentioning

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The Redistributive Effect and Progressivity of Taxes Revisited: An International Comparison across the European Union

Verbist¹,

Figari²

2014

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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 EconStor may AbstractOver the last few years concern for income inequality in European countries has increased remarkably. In this context, taxation is an important redistributive instrument and we investigate the redistributive role of direct taxes. We focus on the EU-15 countries and the evolution over the period 1998-2008, using EUROMOD, the EU-wide tax-benefit model. The research aim of this paper is twofold. First, we investigate empirically whether there is a link between pre-tax income inequality and redistribution through taxes. Second we hereby test whether there is a relationship between progressivity and the average tax level, the two building stones of the redistributive impact of taxes.JEL Classification: C81; D31; H23; H24

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Section: Euromodmentioning

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The Redistributive Effect and Progressivity of Taxes Revisited: An International Comparison across the European Union

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2014

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“…Other studies have focused on the progressivity of the personal income tax (Peter et al, 2009;van Doorslaer, 2001, Wagstaff et al, 1999). For previous multi-country comparative study see also Immervoll et al (2006).…”

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The Impact of Tax and Expenditure Policies on Income Distribution: Evidence from a Large Panel of Countries

Martínez-Vázquez

Moreno-Dodson²,

Vulovic

2012

SSRN Journal

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“…2 Immervoll et al (2005) explore impact of taxes and benefi ts on income inequalities in the EU-15 countries for 1998 and compare the effectiveness of individual policies at reducing income disparities. There are several recent papers that focus on redistributive effects of tax-and-benefi t policies and their impact on poverty in the EU countries (see e.g.…”

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The Poor or the Kids? Distributional Impacts of Taxes and Benefits Among Czech Households

Dušek¹,

Kalíšková²,

Münich³

2015

Prague Economic Papers

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Abstract:This paper provides an up-to-date analysis of the redistributive eff ects of the Czech tax and benefi t system at the household level. We provide several measures of the extent in which the tax and benefi t system redistributes from the rich to the poor and from the childless households to the households with children. We fi nd a rather weak combined power of the tax and benefi t systems in alleviating income inequalities. The system redistributes primarily towards households with children. While households with children earn 55 per cent of total earnings, they pay 39 per cent of total taxes and receive 68 per cent of total benefi ts. Even the richest households with children contribute a lower share of total net taxes (8 per cent) than their share in total earnings (10 per cent). About a quarter of households with children in the upper income deciles collect some benefi ts while only half of the poorest households without children do.

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Household Incomes and Redistribution in the European Union: Quantifying the Equalizing Properties of Taxes and Benefits

Cited by 67 publications

References 9 publications

The Redistributive Effect and Progressivity of Taxes Revisited: An International Comparison across the European Union

The Redistributive Effect and Progressivity of Taxes Revisited: An International Comparison across the European Union

The Impact of Tax and Expenditure Policies on Income Distribution: Evidence from a Large Panel of Countries

The Poor or the Kids? Distributional Impacts of Taxes and Benefits Among Czech Households

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