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Inequality measurement and tax/transfer policy
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2020
We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle in-come...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012231585
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Measuring euro area monetary policy
Altavilla, Carlo; Brugnolini, Luca; Gürkaynak, Refet S.; … - 2019
We study the information flow from the ECB on policy dates since its inception, using tick data. We show that three factors capture about all of the variation in the yield curve but that these are different factors with different variance shares in the window that contains the policy decision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029090
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Ageing and fiscal imbalances across generations : concepts of measurement
Fenge, Robert; Werding, Martin - 2003
In the literature, several approaches have been taken to measure the impact of demographic ageing on public pension schemes, with particular attention being paid to potential fiscal imbalances across the generations involved in demographic transition. In this paper, we review three of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514130
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Measuring the competitiveness of elections
Cox, Gary W.; Fiva, Jon H.; Smith, Daniel M. - 2018
The concept of electoral competition plays a central role in many subfields of political science, but no consensus exists on how to measure it. One key challenge is how to conceptualize and measure electoral competitiveness at the district level across alternative electoral systems. Recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951989
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International outsourcing and the supply side productivity determinants
Grover, Arti (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003598835
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Socially-tolerable discrimination
Amegashie, J. Atsu (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003711748
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A rise by any other name? : sensitivity of growth regressions to data source
Hanousek, Jan (contributor); Hajkova, Dana (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003499719
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Measurement error in education and growth regressions
Portela, Miguel (contributor); Alessie, Rob (contributor);  … - 2006
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … error. This paper analyses the effect of this measurement error on GDP regressions. There is a systematic difference in the … the measurement error. The standard attenuation bias suggests that using these corrected data would lead to a higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301163
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Income dependent equivalence scales, inequality, and poverty
Dudel, Christian; Garbuszus, Jan Marvin; Ott, Notburga; … - 2015
Most equivalence scales which are applied in research on poverty and inequality do not depend on income, although there is strong empirical evidence that equivalence scales in fact are income dependent. This paper explores the consistency of results derived from income independent and income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374211
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An environmental-economic measure of sustainable development
Cairns, Robert D.; Martinet, Vincent - 2013
A central issue in the study of sustainable development is the interplay of growth and sacrifice in a dynamic economy. This paper investigates the relationship among current consumption, sacrifice, and sustainability improvement in a general context and in two canonical, stylized economies. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009766680