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Tax–Benefit Incidence. The Mexican experience during the last twenty years
Vargas-Téllez, César Octavio - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2009
This paper presents a tax-benefit incidence analysis for a large time period. The objective is to know if has been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008479576
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The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru: A Synthesis of Results
Lustig, Nora; Gray-Molina, George; Higgins, Sean; … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012
We apply a standard tax and benefit incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163079
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Regional Income Stratification in Unified Germany using a Gini Decomposition Approach
Frick, Joachim R.; Goebel, Jan - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2005
This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after … unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a decomposition of the GINI index which yields the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413364
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Fiscal policy and income redistribution in Latin America: Challenging the conventional wisdom
Lustig, Nora - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
upper quintile. Through an in-depth fiscal incidence analysis applied to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366275
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The impact of taxes and social spending on inequality and poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay: An overview
Lustig, Nora; Amábile, Florencia; Bucheli, Marisa; … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013
, and taxes? Standard fiscal incidence analyses applied to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878122
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Social Spending and Income Redistribution in Argentina During the 2000s: the Rising Role of Noncontributory Pensions. Extended Version
Lustig, Nora; Pessino, Carola - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012
benefit incidence analysis for 2003, 2006, and 2009 suggests that the contribution of cash transfers to the reduction of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163087
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Fiscal policy, inequality and the ethnic divide in Guatemala
Cabrera, Maynor; Lustig, Nora; Moran, Hilcias E. - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2014
Guatemala is one of the most unequal countries in Latin America and has the highest incidence of poverty. The … indigenous population is more than twice as likely of being poor than the nonindigenous group. Fiscal incidence analysis based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098379
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Fiscal Incidence, Fiscal Mobility and the Poor: a New Approach
Lustig, Nora; Higgins, Sean - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012
makes some of the poor poorer, however, may be important information to incorporate into a fiscal incidence analysis. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098387
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Comparing the incidence of taxes and social spending in Brazil and the United States
Higgins, Sean; Lustig, Nora; Ruble, Whitney; Smeeding, … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013
We perform the first comprehensive fiscal incidence analyses in Brazil and the US, including direct cash and food …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878134
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Measuring poverty using both income and wealth: A cross-country comparison between the U.S. and Spain
Azpitarte, Francisco - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010
In this paper we study the correspondence between a household’s current income and its vulnerability to income shocks in two developed countries: the U.S. and Spain. Vulnerability is measured by the availability of wealth type resources to smooth consumption in a multidimensional approach to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468726