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Changing the income tax progressivity in labour markets with collective wage bargaining generates a trade-off. On the one hand, higher progressivity distorts individual labour supply decisions at the hours-of-work margin, on the other hand, it reduces unemployment by exerting downward pressure...
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, affordability of energy among the poorest should receive increasing attention. Measures of fuel poverty and deprivation with respect …
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The socio-economic inequality that has been growing for some time now is poison for social cohesion and representative democracy. In order to break through the indifference that still prevails towards socio-economic inequality and make more equality possible, people must become aware that the...
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Which groups have particularly low pension entitlements and are therefore most at risk of poverty in old age …, unemployment, raising children or caring for relatives, all of which result in low pensions. Those who are most at risk of poverty …. In other words, those impoverished while young are most likely to remain impoverished into old age. Poverty among the …
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The development of old-age poverty has become an important topic in Germany. Contrary to most studies, a recent report … written by the scientific advisory council at the German Federal Ministry of Economy asserts that old-age poverty will not … problem of old-age poverty, and they plead in favour of further reliable research on the issue. …
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Energy poverty, long considered a problem limited to developing countries only, is now widely acknowledged as a … challenge for advanced OECD countries as well. How energy poverty is perceived depends on the conceptualization and assessment … push into poverty. In Europe, the UK has spearheaded the definition and measurement of such phenomena. The most common way …
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While the risk of poverty increased quite markedly around the turn of the millennium, a further but flatter increase … can be subsequently observed. The development was also accompanied by a stronger increase in the at-risk-of-poverty … which the corona pandemic influenced poverty cannot yet be assessed, as the results published so far are not comparable with …
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Recent data from EU-SILC and Destatis seemed to indicate a dramatic increase in German inequality and poverty in the …
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Fuel poverty may become an increasingly severe problem in developed countries in cases when real prices for fossil … fuels increase at high rates or when real energy prices increase due to policies for greenhouse gas abatement. Fuel poverty … measurement consists of two largely independent parts, firstly, the definition of an adequate fuel poverty line, and secondly, the …
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