Income Redistribution Through the Romanian Tax-Benefit System: Estimation of Pro-Poor Effects

Eva Militaru ()
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Eva Militaru: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, National Research Institute for Labour and Social Protection

HOLISTICA Journal of Business and Public Administration, 2015, vol. 6, issue 3, 78-88

Abstract: The paper attempts to assess the effect of the Romanian tax-benefit system on household income redistribution. The estimation of the effects of the tax-benefit system on income redistribution is a central issue in economic and social policy analysis. The dynamics of household income distribution is a complex process, result of macroeconomic changes, policies, institutions and behaviours, and of the interactions among them. Poverty and income inequality incidence in Romania are amongst the highest in the EU. In this context, our paper aims at analysing whether the income redistribution in Romania is beneficial for the poor. Our analysis uses annual micro data for Romania from the European Union Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), which is a nationally representative survey. For the estimation of direct effects of social benefits and taxes on household incomes we use the tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD.

Keywords: Tax-benefit system; Income redistribution; Poverty; Microsimulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C63 D31 H31 I31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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