Europe Through the Crisis: Discretionary Policy Changes and Automatic Stabilizers
研究了2007-14年欧盟国家中自由裁量政策变化和自动稳定器如何影响家庭收入不平等，发现两者通常降低而非加剧净收入不平等，部分抵消了市场收入差距扩大的影响。
Abstract Tax‐benefit policies affect changes in household incomes through two main channels: discretionary policy changes and automatic stabilizers. We study their role in the EU countries in 2007–14 using an extended decomposition approach. Our results show that the two policy actions often reduced rather than increased inequality of net incomes, and so helped offset the inequality‐increasing impact of growing disparities in gross market incomes. While inequality reductions were achieved mainly through benefits using both routes, policy changes to and the automatic stabilization response of taxes and contributions raised inequality in some countries and lowered it in others.