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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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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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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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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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In this paper, we analyse different measures of asset and income poverty using micro-data for 15 euro area countries … definitions of income and wealth poverty affect the number and socio-demographic characteristics of poor households, as well as … their portfolio composition and consumption expenditure. We find that adding wealth to the poverty definition mainly …
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