dc.contributor.author | Lambert, Peter J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Nesbakken, Runa | |
dc.contributor.author | Thoresen, Thor Olav | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-10-24T22:33:31Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-10-24T22:33:31Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1892-753x | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/180375 | |
dc.description | Abstracts with downloadable Discussion Papers
in PDF are available on the Internet:
http://www.ssb.no | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Abstract:
Empirical findings on the relationship between income inequality and redistribution from a cross-country perspective are not conclusive. One reason may be that observers have in mind different concepts of redistribution. A major factor is that comparator countries’ pre-fisc distributions typically differ markedly, and account is taken of this differently (if at all) by different measures of redistribution. The ambiguities can be resolved by applying the “transplant-and-compare” approach, rendering fiscal regimes into a common base by adjusting for differences in pre-fisc income inequality, and then measuring the “pure” effect of tax-and-transfer policies using this benchmark. We illustrate both what is possible, and what remains problematic, using this technique, by conducting an exploratory international comparison, based on microdata from the Luxembourg Income Study database in combination with more aggregated information from the OECD, for 15 countries.
Keywords: Redistributive effect; Personal income tax; Cross-country comparison | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work was supported by the Norwegian Research Council, Grant 187403. We are also grateful to the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), http://www.lisproject.org/techdoc.htm, for making cross-country income and tax data available. An extended version of the present paper was published as Working Paper No 532 by Luxembourg Income Study. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Statistics Norway | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Discussion Papers;No. 649 | |
dc.subject | Personal income tax | en_US |
dc.subject | Income inequality | en_US |
dc.subject | Cross-country comparisons | en_US |
dc.subject | Redistributive effect | en_US |
dc.subject | JEL classification: H11 | en_US |
dc.subject | JEL classification: H23 | en_US |
dc.subject | JEL classification: H53 | en_US |
dc.title | On the meaning and measurement of redistribution in cross-country comparisons | en_US |
dc.type | Working paper | en_US |
dc.subject.nsi | VDP::Social science: 200::Economics: 210::Economics: 212 | en_US |
dc.source.pagenumber | 32 s. | en_US |