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The carbon footprint of European households and income distribution
Sommer, Mark; Kratena, Kurt - 2016
This paper calculates the CO2e (CO2 equivalents) footprint of private consumption in the EU27 by five groups of household income, using a fully fledged macroeconomic input-output model covering 59 industries and five groups of household income for the EU27. Due to macroeconomic feedback...
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A European equivalence scale for public in-kind transfers
Aaberge, Rolf; Langørgen, Audun; Lindgren, Petter Y. - 2022
This paper introduces a theory-based equivalence scale for public in-kind transfers, which justifies comparison of …, education and childcare expenditure on estimates of income inequality and poverty for 24 European countries. The empirical … results show significant effects of public in-kind transfers on the level of income inequality and poverty for all countries …
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Poverty, pollution, and mortality : the 1918 influenza pandemic in a developing German economy
Franke, Richard - In: The economic history review 75 (2022) 4, pp. 1026-1053
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Weniger Ungleichheit : mehr Chancen für nachhaltige Entwicklung
Deutschland / Bundesministerium für Wirtschaftliche … - 2023 - Stand Juni 2023
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Carbon taxes on consumption : distributional implications for a just transition in the EU
Maier, Sofía; De Poli, Silvia; Amores, Antonio F. - 2024
Carbon taxes on household consumption can simultaneously increase public funding and promote greener consumption habits, an appealing combination for the just transition plans of the European Union (EU). However, concerns about equity and public support pose challenges. This paper assesses the...
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On the Non-Stationarity of German Income Mobility (and Some Observations on Poverty Dynamics)
Schluter, Christian - 2014
poor - instead of the entire transition matrix. Various poverty duration models accommodating unobserved population …
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Extended Income Inequality and Poverty Dynamics of Labour Market and Household Activities a Ten Years Microanalysis with the German Socio-Economic Panel
Merz, Joachim - 2014
Labour market dynamics according the individual working hour tension (preferred working hours minus actual working hours) of active people with focus on the self-employed, as professions and entrepreneurs, and employees are investigated in our study. The individual longitudinal analysis based on...
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A European equivalence scale for public in-kind transfers
Aaberge, Rolf; Langørgen, Audun; Lindgren, Petter Y. - In: Journal of economic inequality 22 (2024) 1, pp. 1-32
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Linking weak and strong sustainability indicators : the case of global warming
Rennings, Klaus; Hohmeyer, Olav - 1997
The aim of this paper is to describe and discuss the weak and strong sustainability approach of assessing climate change and to show reasonable applications, weaknesses, possible improvements and linkages of both approaches. Main features of "weak" and "strong" sustainability approaches are...
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Smart cap
Karp, Larry S.; Traeger, Christian - 2021
We introduce a "smart" cap and trade system that eliminates the welfare costs of asymmetric information (“uncertainty”). This cap responds endogenously to technology or macroeconomic shocks, relying on the market price of certificates to aggregate information. It allows policy makers to...
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