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We study three budget-neutral reforms of the German tax and transfer system designed to improve work incentives for people with low incomes: a feasible flat tax reform that provides a basic income which is equal to the current level of the means tested unemployment benefit, and two alternative...
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Peru has made great progress in reducing poverty and inequality in the past decade alongside high economic growth …. Albeit this progress, the incidence of poverty and inequality remain high. This paper examines the distributional and poverty … publicly-provided health, education and childcare services. Accounting for public services is important since unequal access to …
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Rising poverty and inequality increases the risk of social instability in countries all around the world. For measuring … poverty and inequality there exists a variety of statistical indicators. Estimating these indicators is trivial as long as the … income variable. Based on these pseudo samples, poverty and inequality indicators are estimated. The standard errors of the …
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poverty indices using SOEP data from 1991-2012. We distinguish between parental and publicly provided childcare, which is an … increasingly important in-kind benefit in Germany. We find that both multidimensional inequality and poverty declined as expanded …
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