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The paper investigates the definition of equity-regarding poverty measures when there are different household types in the population. It derives the implications of a between-type regressive transfer principle for poverty measures, for the choice of poverty lines and for the measurement of...
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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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The aim of this paper is to compare the economic situation of young retirees with their peers who decided to continue their working life before and during the recent economic crisis using the micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study Database (LIS) for four countries (Greece, Spain, the UK and...
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This paper aims to assess the present social assistance schemes with the model of production of welfare and the concept of social right. The interest is in how different stages of social assistance schemes are linked and how schemes appear when a number of indicators are used. One of the aspects...
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a variety of institutional pensions schemes. The study contrasts pension system regulation in Denmark, Finland, Germany …
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Germany has lower posttax income inequality than the United States and hence is doing better according to a strict … egalitarian fairness ideal. On the other hand, the United States is doing better than Germany according to a libertarian fairness … Germany for all levels of responsibility sensitivity. If we, however, demand compensation for the residual, Germany is fairer …
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Germany, Italy, the UK, Denmark, the US, and Taiwan. We divide household including elderly into five types: living alone …
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This brief chapter introduces researchers to the possibilities for subnational research using the harmonized data sets made available via the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) (http://www.lisproject.org). We first offer a brief overview of the LIS and discuss specific challenges for subnational...
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