Income redistribution in Latin America: a microsimulation approach. Working Paper UNU-WIDER.

dc.creatorDondo Bühler, Mariana Beatriz
dc.creatorArancibia, Cristina
dc.creatorJara, Xavier H.
dc.creatorMacas, David
dc.creatorOliva, Nicolás
dc.creatorRiella, Rebeca
dc.creatorRodríguez, David
dc.creatorUrraburu, Joana
dc.date2019-01-02
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-30T16:48:13Z
dc.date.available2023-08-30T16:48:13Z
dc.identifierhttps://rid.unrn.edu.ar/jspui/handle/20.500.12049/4424
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2019/635-7
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/8537874
dc.descriptionFil: Dondo Bühler, Mariana B. Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios sobre Territorio, Economía y Sociedad; Argentina
dc.descriptionFil: Arancibia, Cristina. LATINMOD; Bolivia.
dc.descriptionFil: Jara, Xavier H. University of Essex. ISER; UK
dc.descriptionFil: Macas, David. LATINMOD; Bolivia.
dc.descriptionFil: Oliva, Nicolás. Centro Estratégico Latinoamericano de Geopolítica (CELAG); Ecuador.
dc.descriptionFil: Riella, Rebeca. Oficina de Planeamiento y Presupuesto, Presidencia de la República Oriental del Uruguay, Montevideo; Uruguay
dc.descriptionFil: Rodriguez, David. University of Essex. ISER; UK
dc.descriptionFil: Rodriguez, David. Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá; Colombia
dc.descriptionFil: Urraburu, Joana. Oficina de Planeamiento y Presupuesto, Presidencia de la República Oriental del Uruguay, Montevideo; Uruguay
dc.descriptionWe analyse the effect of taxes and benefits on income distribution of six Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Our analysis makes use of tax-benefit microsimulation models based on harmonized household representative survey data and developed within the structure of EUROMOD. The analysis focuses on the relative importance of tax-benefit instruments across countries and on the effect of taxes and benefits on poverty and inequality. The selected countries represent a wide range of cases in terms of the redistributive role of the tax-benefit system with Uruguay providing a large degree of redistribution, whereas the Bolivian system has a very modest role. We further exploit the advantages of our models and perform a simulation exercise whereby the most progressive income tax system of our set of countries is applied to the rest and assess its effect on inequality and revenue. Our paper represents the first study making use of microsimulation techniques to assess the redistributive role of tax-benefit systems in the region in a comparable manner, and highlights the advantages offered by microsimulation models to evaluate the effect of policy reforms aiming to improve social protection in the region.
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dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.subjectTaxes
dc.subjectBenefits
dc.subjectMicrosimulation
dc.subjectLatin America
dc.titleIncome redistribution in Latin America: a microsimulation approach. Working Paper UNU-WIDER.


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