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We analyze how adding the shadow economy to official output figures affects technical efficiency. We find that this only slightly affects the ranking of efficiency scores, but increases average efficiency. Our results are robust to the functional form of the production technology and the...
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persistent effect on subsequent employment and income. After initial periods with a higher incidence of sick leave, treated … treated workers, who manage to stay in employment, incur persistent income losses. The effects are stronger for sub-groups of …
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I investigate the effect of income on mortality of the pensioners, com- paring three subsequent policy periods in … reduction in income was removed in the third policy period. These two reforms allow a causal identification of the effect of in …
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We analyze the effect of income on mortality in Austria using administrative social security data. To tackle potential … estimations, IV regressions reveal a robust zero-effect of income on ten-year death rates for prime-age workers, both in terms of …
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The UK has experienced a dramatic increase in earnings and income inequality over the past four decades. We use … monetary policy shocks lead to a deterioration in earnings and income inequality and contribute to its fluctuation. Our …
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A technical analysis shows that the doomsayers who support the euro at all costs and those who naively theorize that a single currency is the root of all evil are both wrong. A euro exit could be a way of getting back to growth, but at the same time it would entail serious risks, especially for...
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- income inequality as 'undesirably high', and as a source of 'pained conscience' (Simonsen 1972, 57; 59). [...] …
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This paper analyses the pre-tax inequality in the income that individuals actually receive in Brazil and the role of … the personal income tax in regulating these incomes. We produce a new distributional series of fiscal income, consistently … combining annual and nationally representative household survey data with detailed information on income tax declarations …
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of a sufficient amount of income. However, some scholars argue that an income-based measure of poverty can sufficiently … first time we were able to conduct a comparative analysis between income and multidimensional poverty, relying on the same … income and multidimensional poverty and even conducted in different years. Building on recent data for 92 countries, our …
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There has been much interest recently in the relationship between economic conditions and mortality, with some studies showing that mortality is pro-cyclical, while others find the opposite. Some suggest that the aggregation level of analysis (e.g. individual vs. regional) matters. We use both...
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