Year: 2013
Type: report
Abstract: Crisis, or the continued tax deductibility at the marginal tax rate of interest paid on mortgages.Relative to their income the lowest income decile receives the highest contribution from subsidies and tax deductibles while the highest decile receives the least.In absolute terms, however, these contributions are currently benefiting the lowest and highest deciles equally -especially, because of the tax-deductibility of mortgage-interest payments.Though, generally, educational policy has stimulated increased attainment, specific elements have enhanced inequality.Learning routes through the secondary educational system that were mostly used by the lower social classes and children from immigrants and thus mitigated the inequalityenhancing effects of early tracking, have been cut in the 1990s.Since the mid-1990s students have been allowed much higher earnings on top of their grants.This has enhanced competition for lowskill jobs and contributed to the strong educational working-hours gradient of low-level occupations.None the less the combination of internationally average income inequality with below-average poverty seems to point to a still more effective redistribution of income in the Netherlands.
Authors: Wiemer Salverda, Christina Haas, M. de Graaf-Zijl, Bram Lancee, Natascha Notten, Tahnee Ooms
Institution: University of Luxembourg
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2139301915