Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/64522
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 691
Publisher: 
University of California, Economics Department, Santa Cruz, CA
Abstract: 
This note investigates the impact of greater income inequality on the tax base, on the defacto fiscal space, and the sovereign spreads. Using data from 50 countries in 2005 and in 2010, we find that higher income inequality is associated with a lower tax base, lower de-facto fiscal space, and higher sovereign spreads. The economic magnitude of these effects is rather large: a one standard deviation increase of inequality is associated with a lower tax base of 28 % GDP, and with a higher sovereign spread of 240 basis points in 2005.
Subjects: 
income inequality
tax-base
fiscal space
sovereign spreads
JEL: 
H20
H30
H63
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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