소득세, 공적부조, 사적이전소득의 지역소득 재분배효과

Abstract

In South Korea, the regional imbalance of household income has attracted considerable attention over the last five decades. It has been widely argued in the previous studies that income tax, public transfers, and private transfers can play a significant role in the reduction of household income disparities. However, relatively little is known about the effects of tax and income transfers on such disparities in terms of regional context. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which the influence of tax and income transfers on the regional income redistribution, using the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study(KLIPS). The findings are that first, the regional redistributive effects of private transfers are far greater than those of tax and public transfers. Second, the relative contribution of between-region inequality is greater than that of within-region. The tax and income transfers have reduced both between- and within-region inequalities, but such effects do show comparatively small difference between between- and within-regions.