International Comparisons of Tax and Transfer Progressivity: New Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study

John Bishop (), Paul Thistle () and John Formby ()

No 52, LIS Working papers from LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

Abstract: This paper applies an extended Lorenz dominance welfare principle to make and compare estimates of the overall progressivity of taxes and transfers for Australia, Canada, Sweden, and the U.S.

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Date: 1990-06
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Published in European Economic Review, October 1991

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