The impact of redistributive policies on inequality in OECD countries
The impact of redistributive policies on inequality in OECD countries
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DOI：
10.1080/00036846.2014.892202
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发表时间：
2014-06-13
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Peichl, Andreas
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作者：
Doerrenberg, Philipp;Peichl, Andreas
由于再分配干预引发的行为效应，政府政策是否能够有效减少收入不平等仍然是一个悬而未决的问题。我们通过使用不同的国家级数据来源来研究经合组织国家自1980年以来的不平等趋势，为这个研究问题做出了贡献。我们首先研究不平等随着时间的推移的发展，然后分析政府是否可以有效地减少不平等的问题。不同的识别策略，使用固定效应和工具变量模型，提供了一些证据表明，政府有能力减少收入不平等，尽管抵消行为反应。社会支出政策的效果比累进税强。
Due to behavioural effects triggered by redistributional interventions, it is still an open question whether government policies are able to effectively reduce income inequality. We contribute to this research question by using different country-level data sources to study inequality trends in OECD countries since 1980. We first investigate the development of inequality over time before analysing the question of whether governments can effectively reduce inequality. Different identification strategies, using fixed effects and instrumental variables models, provide some evidence that governments are capable of reducing income inequality despite countervailing behavioural responses. The effect is stronger for social expenditure policies than for progressive taxation.