О распределении доходов в НЛ (исследование (на англ.))

Anna · 22 фев 2005

Measuring lifetime redistribution in Dutch collective arrangements

The aim of this paper is to assess how the current Dutch system of collective arrangements redistributes between the rich and the poor. Its main objective is to provide a balanced and comprehensive picture of this issue, and to identify the main factors that shape the results. The approach taken is more comprehensive than the usual way these issues are dealt with in the policy debate in the Netherlands. It is so in three ways: a) it covers the effects of government policies over the whole life cycle; b ) it covers a larger part of the arrangements and c) it estimates the full redistributive effect of the system of arrangements. Generally, studies on the redistributive effects of government policies follow a more partial approach by focussing on the annual rather than on the lifetime effects, by including only the effects of a part of the arrangements such as income taxation or certain expenditure items and by focussing on the effects of policy changes alone...

Annual redistribution by government is misleading as an indicator of redistribution on a lifetime basis because an individual’s income and social economic position and his or her net benefit from collective arrangements does not remain constant throughout life. This follows especially from the fact that burdens and benefits from government change in the course of life due to the life cycle dependencies ingrained in the system of public arrangements and the fact that labour incomes show substantial changes during one’s career.

This study measures lifetime redistribution by government by determining the present values of the balance of taxes paid and benefits received from public expenditure (net taxation) for various groups in society. These groups are ranked on the basis of their level of educational attainment. This variable serves as an indicator for lifetime primary income. The size of the redistribution is measured by the differences between the distribution of lifetime primary incomes and the distribution of lifetime welfare after the impact of taxes and benefits from government have been taken account of.
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