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Income support for non-covered workers during COVID-19 : a review of policy responses

Marx, Paul; Eichhorst, Werner; Rinne, Ulf; Brunner, Johannes - 2022

alleviate even the most extremes of poverty. In this sense, the pandemic is yet another reminder for how important investments …

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Why minimum wage increases are a poor way to help the working poor

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2014

Minimum wage increases are not a very effective mechanism for reducing poverty. They are not related to decreases in … poverty rates. They can cost some low-income workers their jobs. And most minimum wage earners who gain from a higher minimum … wage do not live in poor (or near-poor) families. A better tool for reducing poverty, and at lower cost, is the earned …

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

Hölsch, Katja - 2003

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COVID-19 and income inequality : evidence from monthly population registers

Angelov, Nikolay; Waldenström, Daniel - 2021

We measure the distributional impact of the COVID-19 pandemic using newly released population register data in Sweden. Monthly earnings inequality increased during the pandemic, and the key driver is income losses among low-paid individuals while middle- and high-income earners were almost...

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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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Has the national minimum wage reduced UK wage inequality?

Dickens, Richard (contributor); Manning, Alan (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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