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Social Spending Generosity and Income Inequality : A Dynamic Panel Approach
Niehues, Judith - 2010
This paper explores if more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if redistributive outcomes are offset by behavioral disincentive effects. To account for the inherent endogeneity of social policies with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System GMM...
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The Redistributive Effects of Tax Benefit Systems in the Enlarged EU
Fuest, Clemens - 2009
different normative focus of the two approaches and show that benefits have other aims than redistribution. Finally, our country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154996
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Redistribution Policy and Inequality Reduction in OECD Countries : What Has Changed in Two Decades?
Immervoll, Herwig - 2011
We use a range of data sources to assess if, and to what extent, government redistribution policies have slowed or … redistribution systems in place, greater inequality automatically leads to more redistribution, even if no policy action is taken. We … redistribution. Between the mid-1990s and the mid-2000s, the redistributive strength of tax-benefit systems then weakened in many …
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Modelling the Distributional Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis
O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2020
impacts across the population. The lack of timely available data constrains the estimation of the scale and direction of …
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Would a Legal Minimum Wage Reduce Poverty? A Microsimulation Study for Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2021
In view of rising wage inequality and increasing poverty, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal minimum wage of ¬ 7.5 per hour on the basis of a...
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Ageing Poorly? Accounting for the Decline in Earnings Inequality in Brazil, 1995-2012
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2017
The Gini coefficient of labor earnings in Brazil fell by nearly a fifth between 1995 and 2012, from 0.50 to 0.41. The decline in earnings inequality was even larger by other measures, with the 90-10 percentile ratio falling by almost 40 percent. Although the conventional explanation of a falling...
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Going Beyond GDP with a Parsimonious Indicator : Inequality-Adjusted Healthy Lifetime Income
Bloom, David E. - 2020
Per capita GDP has limited use as a well-being indicator because it does not capture many dimensions that imply a "good life," such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can be calculated with manageable data requirements....
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The Distributional Effects of Tax-Benefit Policies Under New Labour : A Shapley Decomposition
Bargain, Olivier - 2009
Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it possible to disentangle and quantify the relative effect of tax-benefit policy changes, compared to all other effects including shifts in the distribution of market income....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158046
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Violent Conflict and Inequality
Bircan, Cagatay - 2010
This paper analyzes the distributive impacts of violent conflicts, which is in contrast to previous literature that has focused on the other direction. We use cross-country panel data for the time period 1960-2005 to estimate war-related changes in income inequality. Our results indicate rising...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141730
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The Distributional Impact of in Kind Public Benefits in European Countries
Paulus, Alari - 2009
International comparisons of inequality based on measures of disposable income may not be valid if the size and incidence of publicly-provided in kind benefits differ across the countries considered. The benefits that are financed by taxation in one country may need to be purchased out of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153502