Search Results - subject:"Income Distribution"

Social gaps, perceived inequality and protests

Bargain, Olivier; Jara, H. Xavier; Rivera, David - 2025

Latent feelings of economic vulnerability and social stagnation may have catalyzed the unprecedented uprisings that shook Latin America and other parts of the world in 2018-2019. We document this process in the context of Chile, leveraging survey data on protest participation and its potential...

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Top earners and earnings inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic : evidence from Ecuadorian administrative data

Bargain, Olivier; Carrillo-Maldonado, Paul; Jara, H. Xavier - 2023

This paper aims to assess the extent to which top earners in Ecuador were affected by the COVID-19 crisis compared to other segments of the population. Our analysis uses administrative data for individuals affiliated to social security between January 2019 and December 2021. We identify the top...

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Dynastic measures of intergenerational mobility

Bargain, Olivier; Lo Bue, Maria C.; Palmisano, Flaviana - 2023

We suggest a simple and flexible criterion to assess relative inter-generational mobility. It accommodates different types of outcomes, such as (continuous) earnings or (discrete and ordinal) education levels, and captures dynastic improvements of such outcomes at different points of the initial...

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Culture, intra-household distribution and individual poverty

Aminjonov, Ulugbek; Bargain, Olivier; Colacce, Maira; … - 2022

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Income sources, intrahousehold allocation and individual poverty

Bargain, Olivier - In: Review of income and wealth 70 (2024) 2, pp. 291-319

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As SIMPL As That : Introducing a Tax-Benefit Microsimulation Model for Poland

Bargain, Olivier; Morawski, Leszek; Myck, Michał; … - 2021

The Polish tax and benefit system is presented in the context of a recently developed microsimulation model, SIMPL. The model allows simulating direct taxes, social contributions and public benefits in Poland for the years 2003 and 2005. It is based on the Household Budgets Survey data (Badania...

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In-Work Policies in Europe : Killing Two Birds with One Stone?

Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian - 2021

Earning an income is probably the best way of avoiding poverty and social exclusion, hence the recent trend of promoting employment through in-work transfers in OECD countries. Yet, the relative consensus on the need for "making work pay" policies is muddied by a number of concerns relative to...

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Learning from the "best" : the impact of tax-benefit systems in Africa

Bargain, Olivier; Jara, H. Xavier; Kwenda-Magejo, Prudence - 2019

, Mozambique, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and South Africa. These countries show contrasted situations in terms of income distribution. We … applied to the population of all other countries. In this way, we can decompose the total country difference in income … distribution between the contribution of tax-benefit policies versus the contribution of other factors (market income distributions …

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Tax policy and income inequality in the US, 1979 - 2007

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - 2014

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method allowing us to disentangle the policy effect from changing market incomes. Over the period 1979-2007, the cumulative policy effect aggravated inequality by increasing the income share of the top...

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Income distribution and the potential of redistributive systems in Africa : a decomposition approach

Bargain, Olivier; Jara, H. Xavier; Kwenda-Magejo, Prudence - In: Journal of African economies 31 (2022) 4, pp. 293-328

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