D. Papadimitriou 
The Distributional Effects of Government Spending and Taxation [PDF ebook] 

The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Government Effects on the Distribution of Income: An Overview; D.B.Papadimitriou PART 1: DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTS OF TAXES AND GOVERNMENT SPENDING IN THE UNITED STATES An Overall Assessment of the Distributional Consequences of Government Spending and Taxation in the U.S. 1989 and 2000; E.N.Wolff & A.Zacharias Distributional Effects of Defined Contribution Plans and Individual Retirement Arrangements; L.E.Burman, W.G.Gale, M.Hall & P.R.Orszag The Changing Impact of Social Security on Retirement Income in the United States.; B.A.Butrica, H.M.Iams & K.E.Smith PART 2: DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTS IN OTHER COUNTRIES Household Incomes and Redistribution in the European Union; Quantifying the Equalizing Properties of Taxes and Benefits H.Immervoll, H.Levy, C.Lietz, D.Mantovani, C.O’Donoghue, H.Sutherland & G.Verbist Distributional Effects of Evolving Spending and Tax Policies in Post-Socialist Poland; L.Podkaminer The Distribution of Taxes and Government Benefits in Australia; A.Harding, R.Lloyd & N.Warren Distributional Effects of Personal Income Taxation in Korea; K.S.Cheong PART 3: INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS Income Distribution and Social Expenditures; J.A.Schwabish, T.M.Smeeding & L.Osberg The Generosity of the Welfare State Towards the Elderly; M.Lefèbvre & P.Pestieau Index

LEONARD E. BURMAN Co-Director, Tax Policy Center and Senior Fellow, Urban Institute, USA BARBARA A. BUTRICA Senior Research Associate, Urban Institute, USA KWANG SOO CHEONG Assistant Professor of Finance, Graduate Division of Business and Management, John Hopkins University, USA WILLIAM G. GALE Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy and Deputy Director, Economic Studies Programme, Brooking Institution, USA MATTHEW HALL Analyst, Antitrust Practice, NERA Economic Consulting, USA ANN HARDING Professor of Applied Economics and Social Policy and Director, National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM), University of Canberra, Australia HOWARD M. IAMS Director, Division of Policy Evaluation, Social Security Administration’s Research Office, USA HERWIG IMMERVOLL Economist, Social Policy Division, OECD, France MATHIEU LEFÈBVRE Research Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Liège, Belgium HORACIO LEVY Senior Research Officer, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, UK CHRISTINE LIETZ Research Associate, Institute of Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria RACHEL LLOYD Principal Research Fellow, National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM), University of Canberra, Australia DANIELA MANTOVANI Researcher of Public Economics, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy CATHAL O’DONOGHUE Director, Irish Rural Economy Research Centre, Republic of Ireland PETER R. ORSZAG Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow in Economic Studies, Brookings Institute and Research Professor, Georgetown University, USA LARS OSBERG Mc Culloch Professor of Economics, Dalhousie University, Canada PIERRE PESTIEAU Professor, University of Liège, Belgium LEON PODKAMINER Senior Research Fellow, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, Austria JONATHAN A. SCHWABISH Senior Director, Research and Policy, Partnership for New York City, USA TIMOTHY M. SMEEDING Maxwell Professor of Public Policy, Syracuse University, USA KAREN E. SMITH Senior Research Associate, Urban Institute, USA HOLLY SUTHERLAND Research Professor, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, UK GERLINDE VERBIST Post-Doctoral Researcher, Centre for Social Policy, University of Antwerp, Belgium NEIL WARREN Associate Professor of Economics, Australian Taxation Studies Programme, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Australia EDWARD N. WOLFF Professor of Economics, New York University, USA AJIT ZACHARIAS Research Scholar, Levy Economics Institute, USA