Short-run distributional effects of public education in Greece

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The present paper examines the short-run distributional impact of public education in Greece using the micro-data of the 2004/5 Household Budget Survey. The aggregate distributional impact of public education is found to be progressive although the incidence varies according to the level of education under examination. In-kind transfers of public education services in the fields of primary and secondary education lead to a considerable decline in relative inequality, whereas transfers in the field of tertiary education appear to have a small distributional impact whose size and sign depend on the treatment of tertiary education students living away from the parental home. When absolute inequality indices are used instead of the relative ones, primary education transfers retain their progressivity, while secondary education transfers appear almost neutral and tertiary education transfers become quite regressive. Finally, we use the EUROMOD tax-benefit microsimulation model in order to estimate the first-round distributional effects of a graduate tax imposed on the current stock of graduates. The main policy implications of the findings are outlined in the concluding section.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6283

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Education and Inequality ; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
• Subject: public education ; redistribution ; Greece ; Allgemeinbildende Schule ; Öffentliche Bildungsausgaben ; Verteilungswirkung ; Griechenland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Koutsampelas, Christos ; Tsakloglou, Panos
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2012

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/58846
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-201203145324
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET