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Inequality, redistribution and crisis : a comparative analysis of 5 countries

Melfi, Rosa - 2020

through public spending and taxation, could be considered as a key element in order to ensure a more equal distribution of … unemployment benefits), taxation, conditional cash transfers (more common in developing countries), instruments of fiscal … analysis focuses on the effect of the transfers, taxation and public pensions on inequality. …

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Taxation of families and "families of taxation"? : inequality modification between family types across welfare states

Schechtl, Manuel - 2020 - This version: 22.07.2020

Previous sociological research has overlooked the fact that a welfare state’s tax system does not solely redistribute from rich to poor (vertical) but also between family types (horizontal). Different types of families are treated differently due to (de-)familialization policies in the tax...

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Income redistribution through taxes and transfers across OECD countries

Causa, Orsetta; Hermansen, Mikkel Nørlem - 2018

This paper produces a comprehensive assessment of income redistribution to the working-age population, covering OECD countries over the last two decades. Redistribution is quantified as the relative reduction in market income inequality achieved by personal income taxes, employees' social...

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Determinants of household earnings inequality : the role of labour market trends and changing household structure

Chen, Wen-hao; Förster, Michael F.; Llena-Nozal, Ana - 2013

This article assesses various underlying driving factors for the evolution of household earnings inequality or 23 OECD countries from the mid-1980s to the mid-2000s. There are a number of factors at play. Some are related to labour market trends - increasing dispersion of individual wages and...

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The global consumption and income project (GCIP) : an overview

Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2016 - (revised in April 2016)

We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The current benchmark version of the dataset...

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The Global Consumption and Income Project (GCIP) : an introduction and preliminary findings

Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2014 - This Version: October 30th, 2014

We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) containing an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The benchmark version of the dataset presents...

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The atlas of inequality aversion : theory and empirical evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study Database

Kot, Stanisław Maciej; Paradowski, Piotr R. - 2022

In the distributive analysis, the constant relative inequality aversion utility function is a standard tool for ethical judgements of income distributions. The sole parameter ε of this function expresses a society’s aversion to inequality. However, the profession has not committed to the...

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Do economic recessions "squeeze the middle-class"?

Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan - 2019 - This version: January 2019

We examine whether economic downturns reshape the distribution of population income giving rise to a "middle-class squeeze." We test this hypothesis using alternative definitions of middle-class, such as income-based measures from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), and perceived measures from...

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Deep and extreme child poverty in rich and poor nations : lessons from Atkinson for the fight against child poverty

Cai, Yixia; Smeeding, Timothy M. - 2019 - (Version: September 4th, 2019)

The paper documents child poverty levels and trends using both relative ('deep') and absolute ('extreme') measures in two clusters: Anglo–Saxon high-income countries and upper middleincome countries. We also investigate the influence of different components of household income and other...

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What is behind native-immigrant social income gaps?

Anastossova, Lubomira; Paligorova, Teodora - 2006

The recent EU expansion raised fears of potential migration motivated by welfare receipt. In this paper we use comparable data from five countries - Sweden, Belgium, Germany, Norway and the U.S. - to ask whether immigrants benefit more from social support than natives. Looking at the European...

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