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Tax-benefit microsimulation and income redistribution in Ecuador

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  • Xavier Jara
  • Marcelo Varela

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The aim of this paper is to explore the redistributive effects of taxes and benefits in Ecuador using two different approaches: direct use of reported taxes and benefits in household survey data, and use of simulated taxes and benefits obtained from ECUAMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ecuador. Our results show that simulated taxes and social insurance contributions capture better the number of taxpayers and aggregate revenue amounts from official statistics than information taken directly from the data.

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  • Xavier Jara & Marcelo Varela, 2017. "Tax-benefit microsimulation and income redistribution in Ecuador," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2017-177, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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    Keywords

    Taxes; Benefits; Microsimulation; Ecuador;
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    JEL classification:

    • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
    • H24 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies
    • D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation

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