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| DC Field | | Value | | Language |
| dc.contributor.author | | Immervoll, Herwig | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2006-02-23 | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2010-07-07T09:13:38Z | | - |
| dc.date.available | | 2010-07-07T09:13:38Z | | - |
| dc.date.issued | | 2005 | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/33646 | | - |
| dc.description.abstract | | The systems of direct taxes and cash benefits in the Member States of the European Union vary considerably in size and structure. We explore their direct impacts on cross-sectional income inequality (termed redistributive effect for the purpose of this paper) using EUROMOD, a tax-benefit microsimulation model for the European Union. This relies on harmonised household micro-data representative of each national population together with simulations of entitlements to cash benefits and liabilities for taxes and social contributions. It allows us to draw a more comprehensive and comparable picture of the combined effects of transfers and taxes than is usually possible. We decompose the redistributive effect of tax-benefit systems to assess and compare the effectiveness of individual policies at reducing income disparities. The following categories of benefits and taxes are considered both individually and in combination: income taxes, social contributions, cash benefits designed to target the poor or redistribute inter-personally (through means-testing) as well as cash benefits intended to redistribute intra-personally across the lifecycle (through social insurance or contingency-based entitlement). We derive results for the 15 old members of the European Union and present them for each country separately as well as for the EU-15 as a whole. | | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | | eng | | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | IZA Bonn | | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | | IZA Discussion Papers 1824 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | C81 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | D31 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | H22 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | H55 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.ddc | | 330 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | income inequality | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | redistribution | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | microsimulation | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | European Union | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Haushaltseinkommen | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Einkommensverteilung | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Einkommensumverteilung | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | EU-Staaten | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Verteilungswirkung | | en_US |
| dc.title | | Household incomes and redistribution in the European Union: quantifying the equalising properties of taxes and benefits | | en_US |
| dc.type | | Working Paper | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.ppn | | 504726706 | | en_US |
| dc.rights | | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | | - |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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