Income Inequality and Redistributive Government Spending

The paper examines empirically the question of whether more unequal societies spend more on income redistribution than their more egalitarian counterparts. Theoretical arguments on this issue are inconclusive. The political economy literature suggests that redistributive spending is higher in unequa...

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Corporate Author:	International Monetary Fund
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2003 Washington, D.C. : 2003
Series:	IMF Working Papers ; Working Paper No. 03/14 IMF Working Papers ; Working Paper no. 03/14 IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2003/014 IMF eLibrary
Subjects:	Additional regressor Basic descriptive statistics Black market premium Black market Capital Deepening Correlation Correlations Dependent variable Descriptive statistics Distribution of income Distributive politics Equation Equations Estimation method Estimation technique Expenditures, Public General Gini coefficient Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs Government expenditures High-income countries High-inequality countries Hypothesis testing Impact of inequality Income Distribution Income distribution Income equality Income inequality data Income redistribution Independent variables Inequality coefficient Inequality countries Inequality data Inequality indicators Inequality regressions Inequality will Levels of inequality Linear trend Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook > Genealogy Macroeconomic Policy Measure of inequality Measuring income inequality National Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs Nonlinearity Parameter estimate Polarized societies Predictions Redistributive policies Redistributive transfers Reducing poverty Relative position Sample size Samples Sensitivity analysis Skewness Social security Social spending Standard deviation Statistic Statistical regularity Statistics Survey Surveys Time series Unequal countries Unequal societies Welfare and Poverty > Genealogy World income inequality Aggregate Factor Income Distribution Expenditure General Aggregative Models: General Income inequality Income Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook: General Macroeconomics National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General National accounts National income Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions Personal income Public Finance Public finance & taxation Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General Bahamas, The Bangladesh Bulgaria El Salvador Iran, Islamic Republic of Sri Lanka United States

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