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The distributional effects of government spending and taxation / edited by Dimitri B. Papadimitriou.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: xvii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1403996253
  • 9781403996251
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 339.20973 22
LOC classification:
  • HC110.I5 D533 2006
Contents:
1. Government effects on the distribution of income : an overview / Dimitri B. Papadimitriou -- 2. An overall assessment of the distributional consequences of government spending and taxation in the United States, 1989 and 2000 / Edward N. Wolff and Ajit Zacharias -- 3. Distributional effects of defined contribution plans and individual retirement arrangements / Leonard E. Burman, William G. Gale, Matthew Hall and Peter R. Orszag -- 4. The changing impact of Social Security on retirement income in the United States / Barbara A. Butrica, Howard M. Iams and Karen E. Smith -- 5. Household incomes and redistribution in the European Union : quantifying the equalizing properties of taxes and benefits / Herwig Immervoll, Horacio Levy, Christine Lietz, Daniela Mantovani, Cathal O'Donoghue, Holly Sutherland and Gerlinde Verbist -- 6. Distributional effects of evolving spending and tax policies in post-socialist Poland / Leon Podkaminer -- 7. The distribution of taxes and government benefits in Australia / Ann Harding, Rachel Lloyd and Neil Warren -- 8. Distributional effects of personal income taxation in Korea / Kwang Soo Cheong -- 9. Income distribution and social expenditures / Jonathan A. Schwabish, Timothy M. Smeeding and Lars Osberg -- 10. The generosity of the welfare state towards the elderly / Mathieu Lefebvre and Pierre Pestieau.
Summary: "The book presents the distributional consequences of the public sector. Examining both theoretically and empirically, both the effects of giovernment spending and taxation on personal distribution, i.e. on families and individuals and the relationship between the public sector and functional distribution of national income. Government expenditures are explored, asking who benefits from them, who from government transfer programs and who bears the tax burden?"--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Government effects on the distribution of income : an overview / Dimitri B. Papadimitriou -- 2. An overall assessment of the distributional consequences of government spending and taxation in the United States, 1989 and 2000 / Edward N. Wolff and Ajit Zacharias -- 3. Distributional effects of defined contribution plans and individual retirement arrangements / Leonard E. Burman, William G. Gale, Matthew Hall and Peter R. Orszag -- 4. The changing impact of Social Security on retirement income in the United States / Barbara A. Butrica, Howard M. Iams and Karen E. Smith -- 5. Household incomes and redistribution in the European Union : quantifying the equalizing properties of taxes and benefits / Herwig Immervoll, Horacio Levy, Christine Lietz, Daniela Mantovani, Cathal O'Donoghue, Holly Sutherland and Gerlinde Verbist -- 6. Distributional effects of evolving spending and tax policies in post-socialist Poland / Leon Podkaminer -- 7. The distribution of taxes and government benefits in Australia / Ann Harding, Rachel Lloyd and Neil Warren -- 8. Distributional effects of personal income taxation in Korea / Kwang Soo Cheong -- 9. Income distribution and social expenditures / Jonathan A. Schwabish, Timothy M. Smeeding and Lars Osberg -- 10. The generosity of the welfare state towards the elderly / Mathieu Lefebvre and Pierre Pestieau.

"The book presents the distributional consequences of the public sector. Examining both theoretically and empirically, both the effects of giovernment spending and taxation on personal distribution, i.e. on families and individuals and the relationship between the public sector and functional distribution of national income. Government expenditures are explored, asking who benefits from them, who from government transfer programs and who bears the tax burden?"--Publisher description.

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