The Redistributive Effects of Tax Benefit Systems in the Enlarged EU

Abstract

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State Transfers, Taxes and Income Inequality in Brazil

“…As Hoffmann (2013) shows, this decomposition may imply reordering within the distribution of incomes that would result in a measurement of the contribution to inequality lacking substantive meaning. When the same data are analyzed with the factor decomposition methodology, the conclusion is that welfare benefits play a negligible role in reducing inequality (FUEST, NIEHUES and PEICHL, 2010;LEFEBVRE, 2007;WANG, CAMINADA and GOUDSWAARD, 2012).…”

“…While these conclusions depend on the methodology employed, particularly those related to how the contribution of social benefits is computed (FUEST, NIEHUES AND PEICHL, 2010;WANG, CAMINADA and GOUDSWAARD, 2012), they seem to hold true for all OECD countries. Our results, however, indicate that, except for that which refers to taxation, these conclusions cannot be generally applied to a developing country or, at the very least, to Brazil.…”

Social Transfers and Income Inequality in Bulgaria

“…One can distinguish between two approaches in the literature regarding the distributional role of welfare systems (Fuest, Niehues and Peichl 2010). The first approach compares pre-socialspending income inequality with post-transfers inequality.…”

Automatic Stabilizers, Economic Crisis and Income Distribution in Europe

“…Finally, the last two columns of Table 3 show the absolute and relative di¤erences between the pre-and post-tax Gini coe¢ cients as measures of redistribution (see Table 3: Distribution and redistribution in the baseline also Fuest et al (2010)). In countries such as Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Hungary or Luxembourg, tax bene…t systems reduce inequalities in market income by almost 50%.…”