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Poverty alleviation and the degree of centralisation in European schemes of social assistance

Hölsch, Katja; Kraus, Margit - 2003

reducing poverty through social assistance payments are calculated using several measures of poverty for five selected EU … poverty alleviation, the results provide some evidence that extremely centralised systems are more effective with regard to …

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Disentangling income inequality and the redistributive effect of taxes and transfers in 20 LIS countries over time

Caminada, Koen; Goudswaard, Kees; Wang, Chen - 2012

In most OECD countries the gap between rich and poor has widened over the past decades. This paper analyzes whether and to what extent taxes and social transfers have contributed to this trend. Has the redistributive power of different social programs changed over time? The paper contributes to...

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On the meaning and measurement of redistribution in cross-country comparisons

Lambert, Peter J.; Nesbakken, Runa; Thoresen, Thor O. - 2010

There is confusion in the literature concerning the relationship between income inequality and redistribution in a cross-country perspective. The reason for this is that different contributions in the literature are not referring to the same characteristic. This is shown by addressing...

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Income inequality & redistributional spending: An empirical investigation of competing theories

Mohl, Philipp; Pamp, Oliver - 2008

The link between income inequality and governmental redistribution is still subject to intense research and debate. Starting with the median-voter-hypothesis, a plethora of theoretical models have been developed during the last three decades to identify and explain possible causal relationships....

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Income inequality and redistribution in post-industrial democracies: Demographic, economic, and political determinants

Huber, Evelyne; Stephens, John D. - 2013

This article analyzes the determinants of market income distribution and governmental redistribution. The dependent variables are LIS data on market income inequality (measured by the Gini index) for households with a head aged 25 to 59 and the percent reduction in the Gini index by taxes and...

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Tax progression: International and intertemporal comparisons using LIS data

Pogorelskiy, Kirill; Seidl, Christian; Traub, Stefan - 2010

Based on the earlier work of one of the authors, this paper develops a unified methodology to compare tax progression for dominance relations under different income distributions. We address it as uniform tax progression for different income distributions and present the respective approach for...

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Income inequality, redistribution and poverty: Contrasting rational choices and behavioural perspectives

Luebker, Malte - 2012

Based on the standard axiom of individual utility maximization, rational choice has postulated that higher income inequality translates into greater redistribution by shaping the median voter's preferences. While numerous papers have tested this proposition, the literature has remained divided...

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Evaluating real world income distributions behind the veil of ignorance: How risk averse do you have to be to prefer Europe over the US?

Weichenrieder, Alfons J.; Zafar, Tasneem - 2011

The paper uses a veil of ignorance approach and income distribution data of developed countries to arrive at inequality corrected income rankings. While a risk neutral individual (based on year 2000 data) would have preferred to be born into the US rather than any European country in our sample...

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Relative to what? Cross-national picture of European poverty measured by regional, national and European standards

Kangas, Olli; Ritakallio, Veli-Matti - 2004

The starting point in the paper is the relative concept of poverty. We will study how our picture of poverty will … change if we accept a very relative concept of poverty. The first problem we encountered was the selection of the benchmark …. A couple of alternative ways to conduct relativizations were selected. First, we applied the conventional poverty …

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Subnational analyses using the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) data archive

Jesuit, David K. - 2008

and researchers have made in the comparative study of subnational poverty and income inequality. Finally, we conclude with … a brief presentation of the most recent poverty rates for German Länder and Italian Regions derived from the LIS. It is …

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