Can income redistribution help changing rising inequality?

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Publication date 2014
Journal Journal for a Progressive Economy
Volume | Issue number 2014 | 2
Pages (from-to) 39-47
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
Abstract In this article compares the rise in inequality concerning net household incomes in a number of European countries and Canada, the USA and Australia. Two important factors are used to explain this worrying trend: a growing of unequal market incomes and/or a declining redistribution of income through taxes and transfers.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at http://www.progressiveeconomy.eu/sites/default/files/Progressive_Economy-JOURNAL_issue2.pdf
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