The Distributional Effects of Government Spending and Taxation [Hardcover]

This book focuses on the distributional consequences of the public sector and examines and documents, theoretically and empirically, the effects of government spending and taxation on personal distribution, and includes chapters investigating the relationship between the public sector and functional distribution of national income.The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Government Effects on the Distribution of Income: An Overview; D.B.Papadimitriou PART 1: DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTS OF TAXES AND GOVERNMENT SPENDING IN THE UNITED STATES An Overall Assessment of the Distributional Consequences of Government Spending and Taxation in the U.S. 1989 and 2000; E.N.Wolff & A.Zacharias Distributional Effects of Defined Contribution Plans and Individual Retirement Arrangements; L.E.Burman, W.G.Gale, M.Hall & P.R.Orszag The Changing Impact of Social Security on Retirement Income in the United States.; B.A.Butrica, H.M.Iams & K.E.Smith PART 2: DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTS IN OTHER COUNTRIES Household Incomes and Redistribution in the European Union; Quantifying the Equalizing Properties of Taxes and Benefits H.Immervoll, H.Levy, C.Lietz, D.Mantovani, C.O'Donoghue, H.Sutherland & G.Verbist Distributional Effects of Evolving Spending and Tax Policies in Post-Socialist Poland; L.Podkaminer The Distribution of Taxes and Government Benefits in Australia; A.Harding, R.Lloyd & N.Warren Distributional Effects of Personal Income Taxation in Korea; K.S.Cheong PART 3: INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS Income Distribution and Social Expenditures; J.A.Schwabish, T.M.Smeeding & L.Osberg The Generosity of the Welfare State Towards the Elderly; M.Lef?bvre & P.Pestieau IndexLEONARD E. BURMAN Co-Director, Tax Policy Center and Senior Fellow, Urban Institute, USABARBARA A. BUTRICA Senior Research Associate, Urban Institute, USAKWANG SOO CHEONG Assistant Professor of Finance, Graduate Division of Business andlƒ,