The Distributional Effects of Tax-benefit Policies under New Labour: A Shapley Decomposition
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- Bargain, Olivier, 2009. "The distributional effects of tax-benefit policies under New Labour: a Shapley decomposition," EUROMOD Working Papers EM2/09, EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research.
- Bargain, Olivier, 2009. "The Distributional Effects of Tax-Benefit Policies under New Labour: A Shapley Decomposition," IZA Discussion Papers 4296, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Olivier Bargain, 2009. "The distributional effects of tax-benefit policies under New Labour : a Shapley decomposition," Working Papers 200907, School of Economics, University College Dublin.
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Keywords
Tax-benefit policy; inequality; poverty; Shapley decomposition; microsimulation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
- H53 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
- I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CMP-2009-06-17 (Computational Economics)
- NEP-PUB-2009-06-17 (Public Finance)
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