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Unto Häkinnen
Publications - 3
Citations - 771
Unto Häkinnen is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Redistribution of income and wealth. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 3 publications receiving 754 citations.
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Equity in the finance of health care: some further international comparisons
Adam Wagstaff,Eddy van Doorslaer,Hattem Van Der Burg,Samuel Calonge,Terkel Christiansen,Guido Citoni,Ulf-G Gerdtham,Michael Gerfin,Lorna Gross,Unto Häkinnen,Paul Johnson,Jürgen John,Jan Klavus,Claire Lachaud,Jørgen Lauritsen,Robert E. Leu,Brian Nolan,Encarna Peran,João Pereira,Carol Propper,Frank Puffer,Lise Rochaix,Marisol Rodríguez,Martin Schellhorn,Gun Sundberg,Olaf Winkelhake +25 more
TL;DR: This paper presents further international comparisons of progressivity of health care financing systems, modifying the methodology used there and achieving a higher degree of cross-country comparability in variable definitions, and updating and extending the cross-section of countries.
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The redistributive effect of health care finance in twelve OECD countries.
Eddy van Doorslaer,Adam Wagstaff,Hattem Van Der Burg,Terkel Christiansen,Guido Citoni,Rita Di Biase,Ulf-G Gerdtham,Michael Gerfin,Lorna Gross,Unto Häkinnen,Jürgen John,Paul Johnson,Jan Klavus,Claire Lachaud,Jørgen Lauritsen,Robert E. Leu,Brian Nolan,João Pereira,Carol Propper,Frank Puffer,Lise Rochaix,Martin Schellhorn,Gun Sundberg,Olaf Winkelhake +23 more
TL;DR: The general finding of this study is that the vertical effect is much more important than horizontal inequity and reranking in determining the overall redistributive effect but that their relative importance varies by source of payment.
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Redistributive effect, progressivity and differential tax treatment: Personal income taxes in twelve OECD countries
Adam Wagstaff,Eddy van Doorslaer,Hattem Van Der Burg,Samuel Calonge,Terkel Christiansen,Guido Citoni,Ulf-G Gerdtham,Michael Gerfin,Lorna Gross,Unto Häkinnen,Jürgen John,Paul Johnson,Jan Klavus,Claire Lachaud,Jørgen Lauridsen,Robert E. Leu,Brian Nolan,Encarna Peran,Carol Propper,Frank Puffer,Lise Rochaix,Marisol Rodríguez,Martin Schellhorn,Gun Sundberg,Olaf Winkelhake +24 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors decompose the redistributive effect of personal income taxes (PITs) of twelve OECD countries into four components: (i) an average rate effect, (ii) a departure from proportionality or progressivity, (iii) a horizontal equity effect and (iv) a reranking effect.