A Comparison of the Poverty Impact of Transfers, Taxes and Market Income across Five OECD Countries

Sami Bibi () and Jean-Yves Duclos ()

No 3824, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Abstract: This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries. Since the estimation of that impact can depend on the order in which the various income sources are introduced into the analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates of the poverty reduction impact are presented in a normalized and un-normalized fashion, in order to take into account the total as well as the per dollar impacts. The methodology is applied to data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) database.

Keywords: poverty reduction; transfers; taxes; Shapley value; OECD countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 I32 I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2008-11
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Working Paper: A Comparison of the Poverty Impact of Transfers, Taxes and Market Income Across Five OECD Countries (2009)
Working Paper: A Comparison of the Poverty Impact of Transfers, Taxes and Market Income across Five OECD Countries (2008)
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