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An expenditure–based analysis of the redistribution of household income

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SUMMARYThis article complements existing Office for National Statistics (ONS) analyses which focus on the distribution of disposable income across households by examining the distribution of household expenditure, in particular the effects of taxes.Analyses of household disposable income and expenditure both show that: households whose members are economically active and composed entirely of adults are more concentrated in the top quintile groups in both distributions; direct taxes are progressive; and benefits are higher for households at the bottom of both distributions.However, a number of interesting differences were also found. These include: indirect taxes are progressive in expenditure distribution, but regressive in income distribution; inequality in expenditure distribution is lower than in the income distribution; and households composed of single parents, couples with children and people in full-time education are more equally spread within the expenditure distribution than the income distribution, where they tend to be more concentrated in the bottom quintile groups.

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  • Sonia Carrera, 2010. "An expenditure–based analysis of the redistribution of household income," Economic & Labour Market Review, Palgrave Macmillan;Office for National Statistics, vol. 4(3), pages 18-27, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:ecolmr:v:4:y:2010:i:3:p:18-27
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    1. Ryszard Kata & Magdalena Cyrek & Piotr Cyrek, 2019. "Changes in the level and structure of food expenses in the European Union in the context of increasing household incomes," Economia agro-alimentare, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 21(3), pages 709-731.
    2. repec:ijm:journl:v109:y:2017:i:1:p:39-72 is not listed on IDEAS
    3. Francesca Gastaldi & Paolo Liberati & Elena Pisano & Simone Tedeschi, 2014. "Progressivity-Improving VAT Reforms in Italy," Working papers 6, Società Italiana di Economia Pubblica.
    4. Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, 2015. "A study on the economic effects of the current VAT rates structure," Taxation Studies 0056, Directorate General Taxation and Customs Union, European Commission.
    5. Mallika Chawla & Michael G. Pollitt, 2013. "Energy-efficiency and Environmental Policies & Income Supplements in the UK: Evolution and Distributional Impacts on Domestic Energy Bills," Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy, International Association for Energy Economics, vol. 0(Number 1).
    6. Francesca Gastaldi & Paolo Liberati & Elena Pisano & Simone Tedeschi, 2017. "Regressivity-Reducing VAT Reforms," International Journal of Microsimulation, International Microsimulation Association, vol. 10(1), pages 39-72.

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