Cross-country evidence on the distributional impact of fiscal policy

Salotti, Simone; Trecroci, Carmine

doi:10.1080/00036846.2018.1487001

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“…Moreover, the informal sector in these countries, which does not pay income taxes, is relatively large (Cornia 2010). However, prior studies argue that indirect taxation tends to be regressive, thus increasing income inequality (Salotti and Trecroci 2018). While this is true for relative inequality, indirect taxes are redistribution-neutral if inequality is evaluated with absolute measures.…”

Section: Labour Demandmentioning

confidence: 99%

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What works to mitigate and reduce relative (and absolute) inequality? A systematic review

Jordá¹,

Alonso²

2020

WIDER Working Paper

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Over the past two decades, research on the impacts of a diverse range of public policies and income inequality has seen rapid growth. Despite the large number of publications to date, there remain important lacunae in our understanding of how policy interventions might help to reduce income inequality. This paper aims to fill this void by providing a systematic literature review of 270 publications that examine four key policy areas: (1) tax policy, (2) social benefits, (3) labour market interventions, and (4) education policy. We describe patterns of empirical findings and implications drawn from the reviewed publications. The strengths and weaknesses of the existing literature are also discussed, along with potential future research avenues.

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Section: Labour Demandmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, this kind of taxation is generally regressive as it tends to increase disposable income inequality (Salotti and Trecroci 2018). 15 Indeed, the only way to keep redistribution levels when raising indirect taxation is to increase the progressivity of the direct tax system (Decoster et al 2010).…”

Section: Tax Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

What works to mitigate and reduce relative (and absolute) inequality? A systematic review

Jordá¹,

Alonso²

2020

WIDER Working Paper

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“…Different poverty research topics have been addressed in previous studies (Figure 2c). Most of them (41%) investigated the impacts of socioeconomic activities on poverty from a variety of perspectives, including fiscal policies (e.g., cash transfer program (Gilliland et al, 2019), government redistributive policies (Mukarati et al, 2020;Salotti and Trecroci, 2018), tax reforms (Feltenstein et al, 2017;Llambi et al, 2016), public pension system (Inagaki, 2018), childcare policy (Cockburn et al, 2016)), trade liberalization policies (Liyanaarachchi et al, 2016), financial crises (Antoniades et al, 2020), and public investment adjustments in tourism (Banerjee et al, 2015), energy (Tiberti et al, 2017), and infrastructure (Medeiros et al, 2021). We found that economic growth, trade liberalization, and cash transfer have positive impacts on poverty reduction, in which the cash transfer has a significant impact in the short term, but has a limited role in the long run.…”

Section: Bibliometric Informationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A review of model-based scenario analysis of poverty for informing sustainability

Liu¹,

Guo²,

Gao³

et al. 2021

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Ending poverty in all its forms everywhere is the first goal being targeted by the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Poverty eradication is a long-term process that faces the challenges of many uncertainties and complex interactions with other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In order to better understand poverty and contribute to addressing poverty in a sustainable manner, this paper aims to conduct a systematic review of model-based analysis for poverty scenario in the context of SDGs. We first review 144 studies from the perspectives of bibliometric information (i.e., publication types, research topics for poverty, research objects, research scales and geographic locations) and models information for poverty scenario analysis (i.e., model types, purposes, states, temporal and spatial range, sectors considered, poverty and other SDGs indicators). Second, we discuss the pros and cons of different types of models and identify seven representative models. We also discuss the synergies and trade-offs between poverty and other SDGs. Finally, we identify four potential research gaps in model-based poverty scenario analysis and provide suggestions for future research. The review shows that poverty scenario analysis was carried out mainly from a single perspective, such as economic, ecological, and agricultural. Few studies used effective models to analyze poverty under an integrated interactions analysis of multiple sectors. Comprehensive multi-sector models are needed for global and regional poverty scenario analysis over the medium- or long-term to enhance the ability of analyzing the combined effects, synergies, and trade-offs between poverty and a variety of other SDGs.

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“…There is a large number of studies about the dynamics of earnings and income inequality (e.g., Gottshalk and Smeeding, 1997;Salotti and Trecroci, 2018), and, more recently, about the polarization of top incomes, especially in Anglo-Saxon countries (e.g., Atkinson et al, 2011, Piketty and). Yet, much less work can be found on income re-distribution.…”

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Comparing governments’ efficiency at supplying income redistribution

2020

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We examine whether and to what extent political institutions explain different performances in income redistribution across countries. After reviewing the available data sources, the measures of income redistribution and the traditional demand side explanations of redistribution, we focus our analysis on supply side factors, like political and economic institutions, rent seeking processes and the resources and instruments available for redistribution. We provide robust empirical evidence on the association between these different factors and the observed degree of redistribution. Our analysis supports the view that -for a given demand of redistribution -political and economic institutions contribute to explain differences across countries in the observed degree of redistribution.

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Cross-country evidence on the distributional impact of fiscal policy

Cited by 18 publications

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What works to mitigate and reduce relative (and absolute) inequality? A systematic review

What works to mitigate and reduce relative (and absolute) inequality? A systematic review

A review of model-based scenario analysis of poverty for informing sustainability

Comparing governments’ efficiency at supplying income redistribution

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