The Redistributive Effects of Tax Benefit Systems in the Enlarged EU

Public Finance Review

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 473-500

  Fuest, Clemens ^a,b,c   Niehues, Judith ^b,c   Peichl, Andreas ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

decomposition; inequality; redistribution; tax benefit systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955871479     PISSN: 10911421     EISSN: 15527530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1091142110373480     Document Type: Article

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