The Distributional Effects of Government Spending and Taxation

1. Government Effects on the Distribution of Income: An Overview
Dimitri B. Papadimitriou

Part I. Distributional Effects of Taxes and Government Spending in the United States

2. An Overall Assessment of the Distributional Consequences of Government Spending and Taxation in the United States, 1989 and 2000
Edward N. Wolff, Ajit Zacharias

3. Distributional Effects of Defined Contribution Plans and Individual Retirement Arrangements
Leonard E. Burman, William G. Gale, Matthew Hall, Peter R. Orszag

4. The Changing Impact of Social Security on Retirement Income in the United States
Barbara A. Butrica, Howard M. Iams, Karen E. Smith

Part II. Distributional Effects in Other Countries

5. Household Incomes and Redistribution in the European Union: Quantifying the Equalizing Properties of Taxes and Benefits
Herwig Immervoll, Horacio Levy, Christine Lietz, Daniela Mantovani, Cathal O’Donoghue, Holly Sutherland, Gerlinde Verbist

6. Distributional Effects of Evolving Spending and Tax Policies in Post-Socialist Poland
Leon Podkaminer

7. The Distribution of Taxes and Government Benefits in Australia
Ann Harding, Rachel Lloyd, Neil Warren

8. Distributional Effects of Personal Income Taxation in Korea
Kwang Soo Cheong

Part III. International Comparisons

9. Income Distribution and Social Expenditures
Jonathan A. Schwabish, Timothy M. Smeeding, Lars Osberg

10. The Generosity of the Welfare State Towards the Elderly
Mathieu Lefébvre, Pierre Pestieau

Keywords: Economics, Economic Policy, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Public Finance