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Decomposing Redistributive Effects of Taxes and Transfers in Australia: Annual and Lifetime Measures
Author(s) -
Creedy John,
Van De Ven Justin
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
australian economic papers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.351
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1467-8454
pISSN - 0004-900X
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8454.00121
Subject(s) - economics , equivalence (formal languages) , context (archaeology) , redistribution (election) , inequality , transfer (computing) , demographic economics , econometrics , microsimulation , mathematics , geography , politics , mathematical analysis , archaeology , engineering , discrete mathematics , parallel computing , political science , computer science , transport engineering , law
This paper decomposes the redistributive effect on annual and lifetime inquality of a range of taxes and transfers in Australia, using a dynamic cohort lifetime simulation model. The redistributive effect is decomposed into vertical, horizontal and reranking effects. Horizontal inequities in the tax and transfer system are found to be negligible. The extent of reranking is greater in the lifetime than in the annual context and is affected by the equivalence scales used to adjust household incomes. If no adjustment is made to household incomes, reranking is about nine per cent of the reduction in lifetime inequality. However, if each child is counted as equivalent to one‐third of an adult, reranking is found to be less than one per cent.