01663cas a2200277 a 4500 AALejournalIMF013681 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781475551945 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Ball, Laurence. The Distributional Effects of Fiscal Consolidation / Laurence Ball, Davide Furceri, Daniel Leigh, Prakash Loungani. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2013. 1 online resource (24 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper examines the distributional effects of fiscal consolidation. Using episodes of fiscal consolidation for a sample of 17 OECD countries over the period 1978-2009, we find that fiscal consolidation has typically had significant distributional effects by raising inequality, decreasing wage income shares and increasing long-term unemployment. The evidence also suggests that spending-based adjustments have had, on average, larger distributional effects than tax-based adjustments. Mode of access: Internet Furceri, Davide. Leigh, Daniel. Loungani, Prakash. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2013/151 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2013/151/001.2013.issue-151-en.xml IMF e-Library