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THE IMPACT OF TAX-BENEFIT SYSTEMS ON LOWINCOME HOUSEHOLDS IN THE BENELUX COUNTRIES. A SIMULATION APPROACH USING SYNTHETIC DATASETS.
Berger, Frédéric; Borsenberger, Monique; Immervoll, Herwig - EconWPA - 2003
Computing the tax-benefit position of similar "typical" households across countries is a method widely used in comparative fiscal- and social policy research. These calculations provide convenient summary pictures of certain aspects of tax-benefit systems. They can, however, be seriously...
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THE DISTRIBUTION OF AVERAGE AND MARGINAL EFFECTIVE TAX RATES IN EUROPEAN UNION MEMBER STATES.
Immervoll, Herwig - EconWPA - 2003
Macro-based summary indicators of effective tax burdens cannot provide information on the level or distribution of the marginal effective tax rates thought to influence household behaviour. They also do not capture differences in effective tax rates facing different subgroups of the population....
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The Impact of Inflation on Income Tax and Social Insurance Contributions in Europe
Immervoll, Herwig - EconWPA - 2003
Inflation can alter the characteristics of tax- and contribution systems in numerous ways. This paper demonstrates how inflation alters the distributive properties of nominally defined tax systems and looks at the impact of the tax revenues and social insurance contribution receipts generated....
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Racial Income Disparities and the Measurement of Segregation
Sethi, Rajiv; Somanathan, Rohini - EconWPA - 2001
Racial segregation in residential patterns remains pervasive in the United States. This persistence is usually attributed to some combination of neighborhood preferences over racial composition, discrimination in real estate and credit markets, and the effects of racial disparities in income. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119037
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The evolution of income inequality in the European Union
Alvarez-Garcia, Santiago; Prieto-Rodriguez, Juan; … - EconWPA - 2003
The objective of this work is to analyse the income inequality in the 15 EU countries during the convergence process to … whether the inequality of income has diminished within and between countries over time. Gini's generalised family indices … the results obtained to different degrees of inequality aversion and to different equivalence scales, taking into account …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076592
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125619
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Tectonic shifts in the structures of international inequality?
TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005
penetration. Keywords: cross-section models, income distribution, inequality, international economic order, economic welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556011
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Skriptum: Europäisches und internationales Sozialrecht. Europäische und internationale Sozialpoltik
TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005
LISTE EINIGER WICHTIGER ABKÜRZUNGEN 4 ZUM GELEIT 6 EINFÜHRUNG UND PROBLEMAUFRISS - INTERNATIONALE SOZIALPOLITIK BEDEUTET FÖRDERUNG DER KONVERGENZ DER LEBENSBEDINGUNGEN 7 TEIL A: SOZIALRECHT UND SOZIALPOLITIK DER EU 14 1) ENTWICKLUNGSLINIEN UND GRUNDPRINZIPIEN DER EUROPÄISCHEN SOZIALPOLITIK...
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CAN WE DISCERN THE EFFECT OF GLOBALIZATION ON INCOME DISTRIBUTION? Evidence from Household Budget Surveys
Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003
The effects of globalization on income distribution within rich and poor countries are a matter of controversy. While international trade theory in its most abstract formulation implies that increased trade and foreign investment should make income distribution more equal in poor countries and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119246
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Household Wealth, Public Consumption, and Economic Well-Being in the United States
Wolff, Edward N.; Zacharias, Ajit; Caner, Asena - EconWPA - 2003
Standard official measures of economic well-being are based on money income. The general consensus is that such measures are seriously flawed because they ignore several crucial determinants of well-being. We examine two such determinants-household wealth and public consumption-in the context of...
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