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in rural areas, but it has not reduced poverty that much, not least because of how it is administered. Moreover, the …
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poverty risk. The government has recently commissioned several studies to prepare a systematic reform of the system. The …
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Do income taxes levied at a state or regional level affect the after-tax distribution of income? Or do workers merely move between regions, causing pre-tax wages to adjust? This question is relevant both in across states in the United States, and across countries within the European Union. Using...
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We study an economy where agents are heterogeneous in entrepreneurial ability, and may decide to become workers or entrepreneurs. The government is motivated by a production externality to impose regulations on entrepreneurship, and sets a level of red tape -administered by public officials-to...
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In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and at the same time a shift in the burden of taxation from the top to the middle of the income distribution. This paper applies the theory of optimal piecewise linear taxation to...
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We derive conditions of individual preferences and technology that give rise to a negative correlation between income inequality and environmental protection. We present a class of models (which captures a static model as well as an overlapping-generations model) in which individuals differ in...
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paper is to deliver a fresh assessment of the evolution of inequality and poverty across OECD countries over the last … explores whether contracting inequalities coexist with increasing poverty. The paper adds to previous studies by introducing …
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Notwithstanding impressive progress, poverty and inequality remain high in Chile in OECD comparison, and the tax … be quite narrowly targeted at families living in extreme poverty. Over time, the government should consider increasing … support for the poor to find jobs of decent quality will be key to help them overcome poverty in a sustainable way. Ingreso …
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Income inequality in Colombia has declined since the early 2000s but remains very high by international standards. Income dispersion largely originates from the labour market, which is characterised by a still high unemployment rate, a pervasive informal sector and a wide wage dispersion...
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Poverty is an important policy issue in OECD countries and the recent crisis has made it even more pressing. This paper … highlights poverty rate differences across countries and reviews the various policies to tackle it. The OECD-wide poverty rate … poverty rate than working-age people and poverty is more wide-spread among women than men. Albeit boosting employment is …
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