Automatic Stabilizers, Economic Crisis and Income Distribution in Europe

Mathias Dolls, Clemens Fuest and Andreas Peichl

A chapter in Who Loses in the Downturn? Economic Crisis, Employment and Income Distribution, 2011, pp 227-255 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: This chapter investigates to what extent the tax and transfer systems in Europe protect households at different income levels against losses in current income caused by economic downturns like the present financial crisis. We use a multi-country microsimulation model to analyse how shocks on market income and employment are mitigated by taxes and transfers. We find that the aggregate redistributive effect of the tax and transfer systems increases in response to the shocks. But the extent to which households are protected differs across income levels and countries. In particular, there is little stabilization of disposable income for low-income groups in Eastern and Southern European countries.

Keywords: Automatic stabilization; crisis; inequality; redistribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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