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Redistribution, horizontal inequity and reranking: how to measure them properly

Urban, Ivica; Lambert, Peter J. (University of Oregon, Dept of Economics, 2005-07-01)

The decomposition of the redistributive effect of an income tax into vertical, horizontal and reranking contributions according to the model of Aronson, Johnson and Lambert (1994), henceforth AJL, is revisited. When close ...
Redistributive Effect of U.S. Taxes and Public Transfers, 1994-2004

Lambert, Peter J.; Kim, Kinam, 1970- (University of Oregon, Dept of Economics, 2007-02-06)

In this study we derive measures of the redistributive effect of taxes and welfare expenditures for the U.S. using CPS data for the years 1994, 1999 and 2004. We find that whilst income inequality increased, the redistributive ...