Inequality and Fiscal Redistribution in Mexico

John Scott, Enrique de la Rosa and Rodrigo Aranda
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John Scott: Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (CIDE)
Enrique de la Rosa: CEQ Institute

No 65, Commitment to Equity (CEQ) Working Paper Series from Tulane University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper uses income and expenditure surveys from 1992 to 2014 and public tax and spending accounts to estimate the redistributive impact of Mexico’s fiscal system over this period. It presents standard and marginal benefit incidence analysis for the principal public transfers (education, health, social security, direct cash transfers) in 1992-2014, and for the full fiscal system for 2008–14. The paper also estimates the effects of a major recent fiscal reform for the years 2015–18: the transition from large subsidies to taxes on petrol. The analysis shows a continuous improvement in the redistributive effects of the fiscal system through the 1990s and 2000s associated with an increase in social spending and in the progressivity of this spending over this period. This trend stagnated and reversed after 2008/2010, reflecting in part an interruption of the expansive and progressive trend of social transfers, but especially a sharp decline of net indirect subsidies.

Keywords: fiscal incidence; taxation; social spending; inequality; poverty; Mexico (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 H22 H42 I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 55 pages
Date: 2017-11
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Published in Commitment to Equity, November 2017, pages 1-55

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