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Tectonic shifts in the structures of international inequality?

TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005

The article analyses further develops the neo-dependency approach already presented by the same author and looks at recent time series trends in the structure of international capital penetration, international savings, and the dynamics of “unequal transfer” and their effects on social...

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Is Islam really a development blockade? 12 predictors of development, including membership in the Organization of Islamic Conference, and their influence on 14 indicators of develo...

TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005

With all the talk in Europe about “Islam” and “Muslim culture” it is surprising how little hard-core empirical evidence exists on the compatibility of “Muslim culture” with positive patterns of political, social, and ecological development in the world system in the 1980s, 1990s, and...

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Taxing Home Ownership: Distributional Effects of Including Net Imputed Rent in Taxable Income

Figari, Francesco; Paulus, Alari; Sutherland, Holly; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Imputed rental income of homeowners is tax exempt in most countries, despite the long-standing arguments recommending its inclusion in the tax base, on both equity and efficiency grounds. The current fiscal crisis revived interest towards this form of taxation. The paper investigates the fiscal...

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Social Security in Belgium: Distributive Outcomes

Jousten, Alain; Lefèbvre, Mathieu; Perelman, Sergio; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

The paper analyzes the link between old-age income programs and economic outcomes in Belgium. We use a simulation methodology to construct an average pension generosity variable. Our regression analysis explores the link with distributional outcomes in income, consumption and more subjective...

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Well-being Inequality and Reference Groups: An Agenda for New Research

Praag, Bernard M. S. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

In this paper it is argued that subjective well-being of the individual depends on two types of variables. The first type consists of characteristics of the individual himself, such as age, health, income, etc. The second type of variables consists of the characteristics of the individuals...

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The Covariance Structure of East and West German Incomes and its Implications for the Persistence of Poverty and Inequality

Biewen, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … poor individuals stayed in poverty for two years on average. In East Germany, the contribution of the permanent component … to overall income inequality increased from 20 percent in 1990 to over 70 percent in 1998 and the persistence of poverty …

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Back to the Future: Decomposition Analysis of Distributive Policies Using Behavioural Simulations

Bargain, Olivier - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

strong decline in child poverty and poverty amongst single parent households. In the latter group, a third of the headcount … poverty reduction (and half of the reduction in the depth of poverty) is on account of the very large incentive effect of …

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The British Household Panel Survey and its Income Data

Jenkins, Stephen P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net household income are derived. The BHPS net household income...

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Changes in Income Distributions and the Role of Tax-Benefit Policy During the Great Recession: An International Perspective

Bargain, Olivier; Callan, Tim; Doorley, Karina; Keane, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … decreasing inequality and relative poverty in the UK, France and especially in Ireland, a country where rising unemployment would …

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The Income Distribution in the UK: A Picture of Advantage and Disadvantage

Jenkins, Stephen P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

is evidence about real income levels and inequality, and the prevalence of affluence and of poverty. …

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