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Tibor Barna
— the redistributive impact of taxes and social policies in the UK: 1937-2005 | | Author(s) | Howard Glennerster |
| Corporate Author | ESRC Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion - CASE, Suntory-Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines - STICERD, London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Publisher | STICERD, London, 2006 |
| Pages | 28 pp (CASEpaper 115) |
| Source | Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/case |
| Keywords | Social economics ; Income tax ; Public expenditure ; Income [older people] ; Social security [generally] ; Measurement ; Longitudinal surveys. |
| Annotation | Regular annual studies made by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) in the UK are intended to show how far taxing household incomes and giving benefits in cash and kind to households redistributes income from rich to poor. The first attempt to do this in the UK was made by Tibor Barna for the year 1937. Subsequently, his approach has been replicated and elaborated. This study reworks and compares data from various studies to see how the scale and nature of the state's redistributive role has changed over the past seventy years. Differences in methods and data make comparisons difficult, but some broad conclusions can be drawn. Some methodological issues are also discussed on the question of how to approach household equivalisation when services in kind are treated as income. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070116208 B |
| Classmark | W4: WSD: WN8: JF: TYA: 3R: 3J |
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