Papadimitriou The Distributional Effects of Government Spending and Taxation

1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-230-37860-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 310 Seiten, Web PDF

This book focuses on the distributional consequences of the public sector and examines and documents, theoretically and empirically, the effects of government spending and taxation on personal distribution, and includes chapters investigating the relationship between the public sector and functional distribution of national income.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Papadimitriou, D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Government Effects on the Distribution of Income: An Overview; D.B.Papadimitriou PART 1: DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTS OF TAXES AND GOVERNMENT SPENDING IN THE UNITED STATES An Overall Assessment of the Distributional Consequences of Government Spending and Taxation in the U.S. 1989 and 2000; E.N.Wolff & A.Zacharias Distributional Effects of Defined Contribution Plans and Individual Retirement Arrangements; L.E.Burman, W.G.Gale, M.Hall & P.R.Orszag The Changing Impact of Social Security on Retirement Income in the United States.; B.A.Butrica, H.M.Iams & K.E.Smith PART 2: DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTS IN OTHER COUNTRIES Household Incomes and Redistribution in the European Union; Quantifying the Equalizing Properties of Taxes and Benefits H.Immervoll, H.Levy, C.Lietz, D.Mantovani, C.O'Donoghue, H.Sutherland & G.Verbist Distributional Effects of Evolving Spending and Tax Policies in Post-Socialist Poland; L.Podkaminer The Distribution of Taxes and Government Benefits in Australia; A.Harding, R.Lloyd & N.Warren Distributional Effects of Personal Income Taxation in Korea; K.S.Cheong PART 3: INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS Income Distribution and Social Expenditures; J.A.Schwabish, T.M.Smeeding & L.Osberg The Generosity of the Welfare State Towards the Elderly; M.Lefèbvre & P.Pestieau Index

Über Autor(innen)

LEONARD E. BURMAN Co-Director, Tax Policy Center and Senior Fellow, Urban Institute, USA
BARBARA A. BUTRICA Senior Research Associate, Urban Institute, USA
KWANG SOO CHEONG Assistant Professor of Finance, Graduate Division of Business and Management, John Hopkins University, USA
WILLIAM G. GALE Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy and Deputy Director, Economic Studies Programme, Brooking Institution, USA
MATTHEW HALL Analyst, Antitrust Practice, NERA Economic Consulting, USA
ANN HARDING Professor of Applied Economics and Social Policy and Director, National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM), University of Canberra, Australia
HOWARD M. IAMS Director, Division of Policy Evaluation, Social Security Administration's Research Office, USA
HERWIG IMMERVOLL Economist, Social Policy Division, OECD, France
MATHIEU LEFÈBVRE Research Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Liège, Belgium
HORACIO LEVY Senior Research Officer, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, UK
CHRISTINE LIETZ Research Associate, Institute of Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria
RACHEL LLOYD Principal Research Fellow, National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM), University of Canberra, Australia
DANIELA MANTOVANI Researcher of Public Economics, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
CATHAL O'DONOGHUE Director, Irish Rural Economy Research Centre, Republic of Ireland
PETER R. ORSZAG Joseph A. PechmanSenior Fellow in Economic Studies, Brookings Institute and Research Professor, Georgetown University, USA
LARS OSBERG McCulloch Professor of Economics, Dalhousie University, Canada
PIERRE PESTIEAU Professor, University of Liège, Belgium
LEON PODKAMINER Senior Research Fellow, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, Austria
JONATHAN A. SCHWABISH Senior Director, Research and Policy, Partnership for New York City, USA
TIMOTHY M. SMEEDING Maxwell Professor of Public Policy, Syracuse University, USA
KAREN E. SMITH Senior Research Associate, Urban Institute, USA
HOLLY SUTHERLAND Research Professor, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, UK
GERLINDE VERBIST Post-Doctoral Researcher, Centre for Social Policy, University of Antwerp, Belgium
NEIL WARREN Associate Professor of Economics, Australian Taxation Studies Programme, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Australia
EDWARD N. WOLFF Professor of Economics, New York University, USA
AJIT ZACHARIAS Research Scholar, Levy Economics Institute, USA