| Reference : Accounting for Differences in Income Inequality across Countries: Ireland and the Uni... |
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| http://hdl.handle.net/10993/35064 | |||
| Accounting for Differences in Income Inequality across Countries: Ireland and the United Kingdom | |
| English | |
| Sologon, Denisa M. [Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research - LISER] | |
Van Kerm, Philippe  [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Integrative Research Unit: Social and Individual Development (INSIDE) > ; Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research - LISER] | |
| Li, Jinjing [Canberra University] | |
| O'Donoghue, Cathal [National University of Ireland Galway] | |
| 2018 | |
| Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research | |
| No | |
| Esch-sur-Alzette | |
| Luxembourg | |
| [en] This paper proposes a framework for studying international differences in the distribution of household income. Integrating micro-econometric and micro-simulation approaches in a decomposition analysis it quantifies the role of tax-benefit systems, employment and occupational structures, labour prices and market returns, and demographic composition in accounting for differences in income inequality across countries. Building upon EUROMOD (the European tax-benefit calculator) and its harmonized datasets, the model is portable and can be implemented for any cross-country comparisons within the EU. An application to the UK and Ireland--two countries that have much in common while displaying different levels of inequality--shows that differences in tax-benefit rules between the two countries account for roughly half of the observed difference in disposable household income inequality. Demographic differences play negligible roles. The Irish tax-benefit system is more redistributive than UK's due to a higher tax progressivity and higher average transfer rates. These are largely attributable to policy parameter differences, but also to differences in pre-tax, pre-transfer income distributions. | |
| Fonds National de la Recherche - FnR | |
| http://hdl.handle.net/10993/35064 | |
| http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:irs:cepswp:2018-01 | |
| http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:irs:cepswp:2018-01 |
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