Personal and regional redistribution through the national and provincial budgets in Argentina, 2004

This paper studies the impact of national and provincial budgets on the personal and regional distribution of income in Argentina using budget information for the year 2004, both at the aggregate (national) and disaggregate (provincial) levels. The aggregation of results hides inter-provincial effec...

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Autores principales: Cont, Walter Alberto, Porto, Alberto
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Publicado: 2010
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Ciencias Económicas
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spelling I19-R120-10915-1701912024-09-13T20:08:41Z http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/170191 Personal and regional redistribution through the national and provincial budgets in Argentina, 2004 Cont, Walter Alberto Porto, Alberto 2010-11 2010 2024-09-13T18:16:51Z en Ciencias Económicas This paper studies the impact of national and provincial budgets on the personal and regional distribution of income in Argentina using budget information for the year 2004, both at the aggregate (national) and disaggregate (provincial) levels. The aggregation of results hides inter-provincial effects because some province may be winner or loser in the regional distribution through the national budget and the revenue sharing regime and also because national and provincial governments use different instruments to redistribute income. The main results of the paper are summarized as follows. The aggregate effect of the consolidated public budget is a positive impact on the personal income distribution, which results from a combination of progressive expenditures and slightly regressive taxes. The impact is different depending on the province and level of government that exerts the budget. The national budget redistributes income across regions (in eight provinces the difference between expenditures and taxes is negative –they are losers in the redistribution). In spite of that, the national budget improves the personal distribution of income in all provinces. Sub-national budgets have a positive distributive impact, mostly from progressive expenditures (the most important instrument for redistribution), but also from interacting with the revenue-sharing regime, which reinforces progressivity in net-receiving provinces but creates a trade-off between progressivity and (negative) regional transfer in net-financing ones. There is no incompatibility between the redistributive effects of national and provincial budgets. Este trabajo se estudia el impacto del presupuesto consolidado nación-provincias sobre la distribución personal y regional del ingreso en la Argentina en el año 2004, a nivel agregado (nacional) y desagregado (provincias). La agregación de resultados oculta las diferencias interprovinciales porque hay provincias ganadoras y perdedoras en la distribución territorial de los gastos e impuestos nacionales y del esquema de coparticipación de impuestos y también porque los diferentes niveles de gobierno utilizan distintos instrumentos para redistribuir ingresos. Los principales resultados son que el presupuesto público consolidado tiene un efecto agregado positivo sobre la distribución personal del ingreso, que resulta de la combinación de gastos progresivos e impuestos levemente regresivos. Estos impactos son diferentes a nivel de provincias y del nivel de gobierno que ejecuta el presupuesto. El presupuesto nacional redistribuye ingreso entre provincias (por ejemplo, en ocho provincias la diferencia entre gastos e impuestos es negativa –son perdedoras en la redistribución). No obstante, en todas las provincias la distribución personal mejora. A nivel provincial el impacto distributivo es positivo (principalmente a través de la progresividad del gasto provincial), interactuando con las transferencias nacionales, de modo tal de reforzar la progresividad en las provincias receptoras netas y creando un “trade-off” entre progresividad y transferencia nacional negativa en las financiadoras netas. No hay incompatibilidad entre los efectos redistributivos de los presupuestos nacional y provinciales. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas Objeto de conferencia Objeto de conferencia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf
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Personal and regional redistribution through the national and provincial budgets in Argentina, 2004
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description This paper studies the impact of national and provincial budgets on the personal and regional distribution of income in Argentina using budget information for the year 2004, both at the aggregate (national) and disaggregate (provincial) levels. The aggregation of results hides inter-provincial effects because some province may be winner or loser in the regional distribution through the national budget and the revenue sharing regime and also because national and provincial governments use different instruments to redistribute income. The main results of the paper are summarized as follows. The aggregate effect of the consolidated public budget is a positive impact on the personal income distribution, which results from a combination of progressive expenditures and slightly regressive taxes. The impact is different depending on the province and level of government that exerts the budget. The national budget redistributes income across regions (in eight provinces the difference between expenditures and taxes is negative –they are losers in the redistribution). In spite of that, the national budget improves the personal distribution of income in all provinces. Sub-national budgets have a positive distributive impact, mostly from progressive expenditures (the most important instrument for redistribution), but also from interacting with the revenue-sharing regime, which reinforces progressivity in net-receiving provinces but creates a trade-off between progressivity and (negative) regional transfer in net-financing ones. There is no incompatibility between the redistributive effects of national and provincial budgets.
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author Cont, Walter Alberto
Porto, Alberto
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Porto, Alberto
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title Personal and regional redistribution through the national and provincial budgets in Argentina, 2004
title_short Personal and regional redistribution through the national and provincial budgets in Argentina, 2004
title_full Personal and regional redistribution through the national and provincial budgets in Argentina, 2004
title_fullStr Personal and regional redistribution through the national and provincial budgets in Argentina, 2004
title_full_unstemmed Personal and regional redistribution through the national and provincial budgets in Argentina, 2004
title_sort personal and regional redistribution through the national and provincial budgets in argentina, 2004
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