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Scientific article JUN 2024
  • The Social Sector
  • Labour Market
  • The Social Sector, Labour Market

An Examination of Public Income Redistribution

Authors:

  • Jacob Nielsen Arendt
  • Mads Lybech Christensen
  • The Social Sector
  • Labour Market
  • The Social Sector, Labour Market
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This study examines the extent of public income redistribution in a Scandinavian welfare state. We confirm previous findings where the redistributive effect of cash transfers is larger than that of in-kind transfers, indirect taxes, and collective consumption, but their difference depends substantially on common methodological choices. First, we apply administrative data to identify actual use of in-kind transfers and compare their redistributive effects to those from simpler allocation rules advocated in the distributional national account literature when actual transfers are not observed. Second, we show that the use of the insurance value (age and gender specific mean use) as an alternative allocation brings the redistributive effect of in-kind transfers far closer to that of cash transfers. Third, we adjust for life cycle differences and show that while in-kind transfers mainly redistribute income across age groups, redistribution from cash transfers takes place both within and across age groups.

Authors

  • Jacob Nielsen ArendtMads Lybech Christensen

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    Review of Income and Wealth
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