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The Social Preferences of the Native Inhabitants, and the Decision How Many Asylum Seekers to Admit
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin; Szczygielski, Krzysztof - 2019
We consider a tax-funded policy of admitting and integrating asylum seekers in a country in which the incomes of the native inhabitants are differentiated; for the sake of simplicity, we assume that there are just two groups of native inhabitants: high-income natives and low-income natives. As a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179996
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Death and Destitution: The Global Distribution of Welfare Losses from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Sterck, Olivier; Mahler, … - 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought about massive declines in wellbeing around the world. This paper seeks to quantify and compare two important components of those losses – increased mortality and higher poverty – using years of human life as a common metric. We estimate that almost 20...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597516
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Taxing Home Ownership: Distributional Effects of Including Net Imputed Rent in Taxable Income
Figari, Francesco; Paulus, Alari; Sutherland, Holly; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279327
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Social Security in Belgium : Distributive Outcomes
Jousten, Alain; Lefèbvre, Mathieu; Perelman, Sergio; … - 2005
The paper analyzes the link between old-age income programs and economic outcomes in Belgium. We use a simulation methodology to construct an average pension generosity variable. Our regression analysis explores the link with distributional outcomes in income, consumption and more subjective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275028
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Taxing home ownership: Distributional effects of including net imputed rent in taxable income
Figari, Francesco; Paulus, Alari; Sutherland, Holly; … - 2012
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282310
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Inequality and Poverty in Greece: Changes in Times of Crisis
Andriopoulou, Eirini; Karakitsios, Alexandros; … - 2017
effects of the crisis on the level and the structure of aggregate inequality and poverty using the data of EU-SILC for the … period 2007–2014. The results show that inequality rose but the magnitude of the change varies across indices. The recorded … contribution of disparities between educational groups to aggregate inequality declined while that of disparities between socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744718
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Social Security in Belgium: Distributive Outcomes
Jousten, Alain; Lefèbvre, Mathieu; Perelman, Sergio; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
The paper analyzes the link between old-age income programs and economic outcomes in Belgium. We use a simulation methodology to construct an average pension generosity variable. Our regression analysis explores the link with distributional outcomes in income, consumption and more subjective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762242
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Status Concern and Relative Deprivation in China: Measures, Empirical Evidence, and Economic and Policy Implications
Chen, Xi - 2015
and the alarming inequality in China have made relative deprivation more and more intense for the Chinese population. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401777
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Poverty in the Russian Federation
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; van Praag, Bernard M. S. - 2001
This paper is intended to shed light on the extent of poverty in the Russian Federation. We present estimates of poverty lines and poverty ratios derived from subjective questions used in a during data collection for a large household panel (RUSSET). We estimate poverty using a subjective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276957
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Competition Reform and Household Welfare: A Microsimulation Analysis of the Telecommunication Sector in Ethiopia
Rodriguez Castelan, Carlos; Araar, Abdelkrim; … - 2021
current consumers and 0.09 percentage points among new users. Inequality would increase by 0.23 Gini points since better off …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497945