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How Much Redistribution Do Governments Achieve? The Role of Cash Transfers and Household Taxes
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Whiteford, Peter |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | GROWING UNEQUAL? – ISBN 978-92-64-044180-0 – © OECD 2008 110 welfare state spending and taxation have no behavioural impact on the distribution of market incomes. In particular, in countries with generous public pensions, the standard approach implies that middle-class individuals are plunged into market-income poverty on retirement simply because it is the government, rather than the market, that provides their pensions: generous earnings-related public pensions are then measured as being very effective at reducing inequality, in part because they restore middle-income retirees to their pre-retirement ranking. A comparison between the two alternative measures suggests that, in some OECD countries, a very significant part of the redistribution measured by the Figure 4.4. Differences in inequality before and after taxes and transfers in OECD countries Difference in concentration coefficients around 2005 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1787/9789264044197-6-en |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.oecd.org/about/publishing/41933898.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264044197-6-en |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
