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ceteris paribus impact of the reforms on inequality and poverty as well as estimate how the burden of austerity has been …
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In this paper we study the impact of tax-benefit systems on income inequality and work incentives across the 27 Member …
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The Great Recession and the widespread adoption of fiscal austerity policies have heightened concern about inequality …., 2017), the overall change in income inequality is decomposed into parts attributable to the change in market income … inequality, changes in discretionary tax-benefit policy and automatic stabilisation effects. We implement this approach using the …
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This paper aims to disentangle the driving factors behind the changes in income inequality in the Baltics since the EU … and re-weighting techniques. Decomposition of the total change in inequality showed that income and policy effects are … dominant in the Baltics. Policy effects were inequality reducing before the crisis and for the period after the EU accession as …
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This papers quantifies the redistributive effects on progressivity, poverty and welfare, that would occur if the monetary benefits currently in place in the Spanish system were to be replaced by a neutral alternative in terms of spending, granting a universal basic income (UBI) to everyone. We...
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Spanish regions using EUROMOD. Our results show that the IMV reduces inequality and poverty - general and extreme - for all … level, although this power has not been as effective as it was expected in reducing inequality. This work also simulates the … effects on inequality and poverty that the elimination of current RMI and the introduction of the new IMV would generate …
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In this paper we want to provide an utopian attempt to tackle inequality and to tackle, most specifically, what we … consider the cultural and ethical origin of inequality: paid work. We believe that a globalised world, structured around the … the UK. Our main findings suggest that UII has a positive effect on inequality an almost null effect on poverty and strong …
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International comparisons of inequality based on measures of disposable income may not be valid if the size and … comparable methods and data. Inequality in the augmented income measure is dramatically lower than in disposable income, with the …
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This paper evaluates income distributions in four European countries (Austria, Italy, Spain and Hungary) using two complementary approaches: a standard approach based on reported incomes in survey data, and a microsimulation approach, where taxes and benefits are simulated. Given that benefit...
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rent in the tax base might affect inequality in each of the countries considered. Housing taxation appears to be a … promising avenue for raising additional revenues, or lightening taxation of labour, with no inequality-increasing side-effects. …
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