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The Transformation of Public Policy Analysis in Times of Crisis - A Microsimulation-Nowcasting Method Using Big Data

O'Donoghue, Cathal; Sologon, Denisa Maria - 2023

The urgency of the two crises, especially the COVID-19 pandemic, revealed the inadequacy of traditional statistical datasets and models to provide a timely support to the decision-making process in times of volatility. Drawing upon advances in data analytics for public policy and the increasing...

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The Welfare Impact of Price Changes on Household Welfare and Inequality 1999-2010

Loughrey, Jason - 2011

This paper provides a single welfare measure to show the effects of consumer price changes upon households in Ireland … component using the Atkinson Social Welfare Function. The efficiency component includes the behavioural response to price … an inequality measure and this is combined with the Cost of Living Index to produce an overall welfare measure. This …

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Decomposition of the Changes in Household Disposable Income Distribution in China

Gong, Chen; Sologon, Denisa Maria; Nimeh, Zina; … - 2023

Studies have shown that the previously growing inequality in China has stabilized and even declined since 2008 (Kanbur et al., 2021), nevertheless, the drivers of the latest trans-formation in income inequality remain to be unraveled. We address this research gap by examining the changes in the...

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The Impact of Brazil's Tax-Benefit System on Inequality and Poverty

Immervoll, Herwig; Levy, Horacio; Nogueira, José Ricardo; … - 2006

successful in alleviating inequality and poverty. Focussing on taxes and cash transfers, this paper investigates the impact of … inequality and poverty. We present BRAHMS, a new tax-benefit microsimulation model for Brazil and illustrate its use by …

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Differential Welfare State Impacts for Frontier Working Age Families

Burlacu, Irina S. - 2012

Benefits and taxes vary greatly across the European Union owing to incongruent welfare and taxation systems. This paper … analyzes how welfare states achieve insurance and equity objectives for residents who work in other countries. The aim is to … evaluate the impact of unemployment benefits and income taxation on these frontier workers' welfare in Luxembourg and Belgium …

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Using the EU-SILC to Model the Impact of the Economic Crisis on Inequality

O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2013

In this paper we attempted to chart the impact of the early part of Ireland's economic crisis from 2008-2010 on the distribution of income. In order to decompose the impact of components of income, we utilised a microsimulation methodology the EU-SILC User Database. In order to do this we had to...

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Alternative Basic Income Mechanisms : An Evaluation Exercise with a Microeconometric Model

Colombino, Ugo - 2010

of different economies and welfare policy regimes: Denmark, Italy, Portugal and the United Kingdom. We then simulate …

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Equalizing or Disequalizing Lifetime Earnings Differentials? Earnings Mobility in the EU : 1994-2001

Sologon, Denisa Maria - 2009

Do EU citizens have an increased opportunity to improve their position in the distribution of lifetime earnings? To what extent does earnings mobility work to equalize/disequalize longer-term earnings relative to cross-sectional inequality and how does it differ across the EU? Our basic...

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Increased Opportunity to Move Up the Economic Ladder? Earnings Mobility in EU : 1994-2001

Sologon, Denisa Maria - 2009

Do EU citizens have an increased opportunity to improve their position in the distribution of earnings over time? This question is answered by exploring short and long-term wage mobility for males across 14 EU countries between 1994 and 2001 using ECHP. Mobility is evaluated using rank measures...

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Earnings Dynamics and Inequality Among Men Across 14 EU Countries, 1994-2001 : Evidence from ECHP

Sologon, Denisa Maria - 2009

a welfare perspective, particularly given the large variety in national cross-sectional wage inequality. This is highly …

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