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Comparing the incidence of taxes and social spending in Brazil and the United States
Higgins, Sean; Lustig, Nora; Ruble, Whitney; Smeeding, … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013
We perform the first comprehensive fiscal incidence analyses in Brazil and the US, including direct cash and food transfers, targeted housing and heating subsidies, public spending on education and health, and personal income, payroll, corporate income, property, and expenditure taxes. In both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878134
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Fiscal policy and income redistribution in Latin America: Challenging the conventional wisdom
Lustig, Nora - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
Conventional wisdom states that fiscal policy redistributes little in Latin America. Lower tax revenues and – above all – lower and less progressive transfers have been identified as the main cause. Existing studies show that, while in Europe the distribution of all transfers combined (cash...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366275
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Political Ideology and Economic Growth in a Democracy : The French Experience, 1871 - 2009
Facchini, François; Melki, Mickaël - HAL - 2012
This paper examines the influence of political ideology on economic growth in the French democracy since 1871. It does so by addressing three main issues : the property and the reliability of a political ideology index in the long-run, the robustness of the relationship between ideology and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010635028
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Income polarization and economic growth
Brzezinski, Michal - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013
-level datasets, as well as datasets reconstructed from grouped data on income distribution taken from the World Income Inequality … growth in the short term, while the impact of income inequality on growth is statistically insignificant. Our results are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878126
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Does regional cost-of-living reshuffle Italian income distribution?
Massari, Riccardo; Pittau, M. Grazia; Zelli, Roberto - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010
This paper examines how spatial price differentials affect income distribution in Italy. The distribution of household income is “reshuffled” after controlling for the purchasing power of households residents in different regions, but only when housing price variations are included in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502854
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Poverty and Women’s Labor Market Activity: the Role of Gender Wage Discrimination in the EU
Gradín, Carlos; Cantó, Olga; Río, Coral del - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2006
The functioning of the labor market often has been stressed as a clear determinant in explaining poverty trends in developed countries. In this paper, we analyze the role of gender wage discrimination on household poverty rates in several EU countries, linking two related phenomena that rarely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413382
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Equivalence scales reconsidered – an empirical investigation
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2008
Households can differ in size and needs. A reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore … by means of an inequality decomposition by household types. Country inequality rankings are sensitive to the conversion … strategy applied. The decomposition analysis reveals the underlying mechanisms. We find inequality estimates typically to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413420
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The Redistributive Aspects of ELIE: a simulationapproach
Lubrano, Michel - HAL - 2008
This paper analyses the problems linked to the implementation of the Equal Labour Income Equalisation (ELIE) scheme proposed by Kolm (2005). It successively studies the influence of uncertainty in the knowledge of individual incomes, the impact of equivalence scales and finally the consequences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793731
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Effect of Uncertainty about Others' Rationality in Experimental Asset Markets: An Experimental Analysis
Akiyama, Eizo; Hanaki, Nobuyuki; Ishikawa, Ryuichiro - HAL - 2012
the uncertainty of subjects regarding others' rationality. We do so by comparing the price forecasts submitted by subjects … hypothesis that uncertainty about others' rationality plays a major role in causing substantial deviation of forecast prices from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933826
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The World According to GARP* : Non-parametric Tests of Demand Theory and Rational Behavior
Diaye, Marc-Arthur; Gardes, François; Starzec, Christophe - HAL - 2008
The purpose of this paper is twofold. We first point out that violation of rationality axioms (SARP, GARP, WARP) do not … non-respect of demand theory axioms but by the changing of preferences over the period. A logistic regression confirms the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643767