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An ex-ante assessment on poverty and cash transfer benefits in Viet Nam under the Covid-19 pandemic

Long Thanh Giang; Kikkawa, Aiko; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2021

poverty status of the Vietnamese households, and then simulated the impact of cash transfer programs by the government of … Vietnam on the income and poverty status of households. Our simulations suggest that COVID-19 leads to substantial reduction …-poor and helps bring about 1.2 million people out of poverty. The transfers would be particularly pro-poor for ethnic minority …

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Inequality and support for government responses to COVID-19

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Malesky, Edmund; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2020

Despite a rich literature studying the impact of inequality on policy outcomes, there has been limited effort to bring these insights into the debates about comparative support for government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. We fill in this gap by analyzing rich survey data from six countries...

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Does the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affect the poor? : evidence from a six-country survey

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Toan Luu Duc Huynh; Nguyen, Manh-Hung - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havocs on economies around the world. Yet, much needs to be learnt on the distributional impacts of the pandemic. We contribute new theoretical and empirical evidence on the distributional impacts of the pandemic on different income groups in a multi-country...

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Poverty alleviation and the degree of centralisation in European schemes of social assistance

Hölsch, Katja - 2003

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On recessive and expansionary impact of financial development : empirical evidence

Nguena, Christian Lambert; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2020

This paper mainly examines the effect of financial development on the recession, while controlling for potential recession factors. Using panel data of 129 countries spanning 1990-2010, we implemented "Locally Weighted Scatterplot Smoothing", "Local Linear" and "Iteratively Reweighted Least...

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Automating labor : evidence from firm-level patent data

Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hémous, David; Olsen, Morten; … - 2020

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The Brazilian state's redistributive role : changes and persistence at the beginning of the 21st century

Silveira, Fernando Gaiger da; Palomo, Theo Ribas - 2023

This paper examines the evolution of the redistributive role of the State in Brazil at the beginning of the 21st century. For this purpose, we compute the marginal effects of the cash transfers, taxes, and in-kind benefits on inequality using the Lerman-Yitzhaki progressivity index. Our main...

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Distributional effects of subsidizing retirement savings accounts : evidence from Germany

Corneo, Giacomo; Schröder, Carsten; König, Johannes - 2015

We empirically investigate the distributional consequences of the Riester scheme, the main private pension subsidization program in Germany. We find that 38% of the aggregate subsidy accrues to the top two deciles of the population, but only 7.3% to the bottom two. Nonetheless the Riester scheme...

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Distributional effects of a minimum wage in a welfare state : the case of Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2013

A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We …

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Labor market and income effects of a legal minimum wage in Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2010

In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the basis of a microsimulation model which accounts...

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