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Top Incomes in Ireland : Reconciling Evidence from Tax Records and Household Survey Data
Callan, Tim - 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/10012825605
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Crisis, Response and Distributional Impact : The Case of Ireland
Callan, Tim - 2013
Ireland is one of the countries most severely affected by the Great Recession. National income fell by more than 10 per …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079158
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Earnings Inequality, Returns to Education and Immigration into Ireland
Barrett, Alan; Fitzgerald, John - 2021
paper we examine what has happened to earnings inequality and the returns to education in Ireland between 1987 and 1997. We …
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The Economic Crisis, Public Sector Pay, and the Income Distribution
Callan, Tim - 2010
private sector? This paper investigates these issues using data and a tax-benefit simulation for Ireland, a country which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141768
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Does Growth Affect the Nature of Inequality? Ireland 1994-2001
Doris, Aedin; O'Neill, Donal; Sweetman, Olive - 2021
covariance structure of earnings in Ireland to examine whether this rapid growth affected earnings dynamics over the period …. Using panel data for the years 1994-2001, we show that, while permanent inequality in Ireland is high, the degree of …
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Macroeconomic Conditions and the Distribution of Income in Spain
Farré, Lidia; Vella, Francis - 2007
This paper analyzes the impact of changes in macroeconomic conditions on the income distribution in Spain. Using household data from the Encuesta Continuada de Presupuestos Familiares (ECPF) from 1985 to 1996, we disentangle the effect of aggregate variables on the income distribution by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014053540
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Immigrants and Welfare Receipt in Ireland
Barrett, Alan - 2011
Since 2004, Ireland has included in its system of social welfare payments criteria for receipt which limit the extent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129905
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Impatience and Uncertainty : Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior
Sutter, Matthias - 2011
We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment. We relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of impatience are found to be significant predictors of health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131926
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The Effects of Childhood Health on Adult Health and SES in China
Smith, James P. - 2010
In this paper, we model the consequences of childhood health on adult health and socio-economic status outcomes in China using a new sample of middle aged and older Chinese respondents. Modeled after the American Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), the CHARLS Pilot survey respondents are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135829
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Tax-Benefit Revealed Redistributive Preferences Over Time : Ireland 1987-2005
Bargain, Olivier - 2010
shows marked differences reflecting the narrow political spectrum in Ireland compared to radical changes in British politics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137249