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Han, Jeehoon - 2020

impact of the current pandemic on income and poverty to inform the targeting of resources to those most affected and assess … the success of current efforts. We construct new measures of the income distribution and poverty with a lag of only a few …, government policy effectively countered its effects on incomes, leading poverty to fall and low percentiles of income to rise …

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Up from Poverty? The 1832 Cherokee Land Lottery and the Long-Run Distribution of Wealth

Bleakley, Hoyt - 2013

these episodes to examine the idea that the lower tail of the wealth distribution reflects in part a wealth-based poverty …

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

Hölsch, Katja - 2003

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Automating labor : evidence from firm-level patent data

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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?

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European schemes of social assistance : an empirical analysis of set-ups and distributive impacts

Hölsch, Katja; Kraus, Margit - 2002

This paper analyses the distributive impacts of various regulatory and institutional settings of European schemes of social assistance. For this purpose, two sets of classifications of European schemes of social assistance are introduced that classify the systems according to regulatory...

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