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Diplomacy and Global Affairs Research Seminar Series
About the lecture:
 
Most welfare states design their tax/benefit system to combat income inequality and income poverty. Some countries are more effective in poverty alleviation than others. What can explain these variations in outcomes and effectiveness? And has the redistributive power of different social programs changed over time and across countries?

The presentation explores (descriptive) the effectiveness of T/B-systems in alleviating poverty and reducing income inequality. We focus on 49 LIS-countries for the period 1967-2016. We compare income inequality (Gini’s) and relative income poverty rates at the levels of market incomes and disposable incomes, that is before and after social transfers and income taxes, in order to analyze the effect of tax and transfer policies in reducing income poverty, i.e. to determine the target efficiency of social transfers.

We use micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) to examine household market income poverty and disposable income poverty, the antipoverty effect of social transfers and income taxes, and the underlying social programs that drive the changes. The Leiden LIS Budget Incidence Fiscal Redistribution Dataset on Relative Income Poverty (LLBIFR Dataset on Relative Income Poverty 2019) allows researchers and public policy analysts to compare antipoverty effects across developed countries and middle income countries over the last five decades. Research may employ these data in addressing several important issues. Changes (in the generosity) of welfare states can be linked to changes in the antipoverty effects. Best-practices among countries can be identified and analyzed in detail. The LLBIFR on Relative Income Poverty 2019 with its detailed data on income taxes and a large number of individual social benefits offers a rich source of information which may be used by scholars and policy analysts to study the effects of different social programs on economic well-being.


The following papers and databases are relevant for this DGA seminar:
1. Income inequality and fiscal redistribution in 31 countries after the crisis
2. Relative income poverty rates and poverty alleviation via tax/benefit systems in 49 LIS-countries, 1967-2016
3. Budget Incidence Fiscal Redistribution Dataset on Relative Income Poverty Rates
4. Budget Incidence Fiscal Redistribution Dataset on Income Inequality 

 
About the seminars:

The Diplomacy and Global Affairs (DGA) Research Seminar is a series launched by the Research Group on Diplomacy and Global Affairs at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. The seminars of internationally acknowledged guest researchers and faculty members deal with current research topics in diplomacy, international relations, global affairs, and political economy broadly conceived and target a broad audience through their interdisciplinary focus.
For more information, please contact:
Prof. dr. M.O. Hosli (coordinator)
m.o.hosli@fgga.leidenuniv.nl 
Dr. J.J. Kantorowicz
j.j.kantorowicz@fgga.leidenuniv.nl
Dr. V. Newby
v.f.newby@fgga.leidenuniv.nl
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Diplomacy and Global Affairs (DGA) is part of the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA). The institute also provides the MSc International Relations and Diplomacy, the Master Crisis and Security Management and the (Executive) Master Cyber Security.

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June 2019
03
Schouwburgstraat
Schouwburgstraat 2
2511 VA The Hague

Room: A2.01
13:15 - 14.45
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Koen Caminada (1966) is a professor of Empirical Analysis of Tax and Social Policy at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He is Academic Director of the Leiden Institute of Tax Law and Economics and Vice-Dean (Education) at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs. His research interests include Empirical Analysis of Tax Law and Social Policy, Social Security, Fiscal and Tax Policy, Income Distribution and Poverty (EU and OECD). Caminada holds a Ph.D. from Leiden University (1997), and studied Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam (1986-1992) and the Catholic University Leuven, Belgium (1991-1992). Caminada is a research fellow at Leiden Law School, and Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging, and Retirement. He was visiting  professor at the Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin – Madison (USA), Xiamen University Tan Kah Kee College, Xiamen (China), School of Public Finance, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing (China), an the Institute of Finance and Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai (China). Caminada is a member of the board of Governors of the Foundation of International Studies on Social Security, and Academic Partner of CPB Netherlands Bureau of Economic Policy Analysis. 

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