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Changes in income distributions and the role of tax-benefit policy during the Great Recession : an international perspective
Bargain, Olivier; Callan, Tim; Doorley, Karina; Keane, … - 2013
This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … decreasing inequality and relative poverty in the UK, France and especially in Ireland, a country where rising unemployment would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212995
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Automation and income inequality in Europe
Doorley, Karina; Gromadzki, Jan; Lewandowski, Piotr; … - 2023
We study the effects of robot penetration on household income inequality in 14 European countries between 2006-2018, a period marked by the rapid adoption of industrial robots. Automation reduced relative hourly wages and employment of more exposed demographic groups, similarly to the results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014391207
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Top incomes in Ireland: reconciling evidence from tax records and household survey data
Callan, Tim; Doorley, Karina; McTague, Alyvia - 2020
There are two main sources of data on income distribution. Household based surveys report mainly on inequality in equivalised household level disposable income. Top income shares, on the other hand, focus on the tax unit as the unit of analysis, because administrative records are obtained from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265880
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Demographic change and the European income distribution
Dolls, Mathias; Doorley, Karina; Paulus, Alari; … - 2018
inequality and poverty from the reaction of the labor market to this demographic change through wage adjustments. Our results … opposite direction. Changes to projected relative poverty are minimal for most countries. With a few exceptions, EU tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011821330
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The gender gap in income and the COVID-19 pandemic
Doorley, Karina; O'Donoghue, Cathal; Sologon, Denisa M. - 2021
The gender income gap is large and well documented for many countries. Recent research shows that it is mainly driven by differences in working patterns between men and women, but also by wage differences. The tax-benefit system cushions the gender income gap by redistributing between men and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518063
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Tax-benefit systems and the gender gap in income
Doorley, Karina; Keane, Claire - 2020
The gender wage gap and the gender work gap are sizable, persistent and well documented for many countries. The result of the gender wage and gender work gap combined is an income gap between men and women. A small literature has begun to examine how the tax-benefit system contributes to closing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296597
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Inequality in EU crisis countries : how effective were automatic stabilisers?
Callan, Tim; Doorley, Karina; Savage, Michael - 2018
The Great Recession and the widespread adoption of fiscal austerity policies have heightened concern about inequality and how well tax-benefit systems redistribute. We examine how the distribution of income in the EU countries which were hardest hit during the recession evolved over this time....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011821286
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In-work transfers in good times and bad : simulations for Ireland
Bargain, Olivier; Doorley, Karina - 2009
In-work transfers are often seen as a good trade-off between redistribution and efficiency, as they alleviate poverty … poverty effects of alternative policies are analyzed thanks to counterfactual simulations built using a micro-simulation model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003928130