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paper, we utilize Consumption Dominance curve techniques to analyse the impact of marginal indirect tax changes on poverty … marginal tax changes which will reduce poverty for some selected commodities over a broad class of poverty measures and poverty …
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This study analysed the contribution of economic growth and redistribution components to aggregate poverty changes in … from the Household Budget Survey to calculate poverty indices. The result of the Shapley value decomposition of poverty … bringing about the decline in poverty. This suggests that the drastic fall in absolute poverty over the survey period could be …
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By inverting Saez (2002)'s model of optimal income taxation, we characterize the redistributive preferences of the Irish government between 1987 and 2005. The (marginal) social welfare function revealed by this approach is consistently comparable over time and show great stability despite...
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This paper reviews developments in income and health poverty in Ireland over the 2003-2011 period using data from the … poverty fell up to and including 2009, after which this trend is reversed. Health poverty shows less of a trend over the … period though there is some evidence of a reduction in health inequality from 2006. Movements in bi-dimensional poverty are …
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. Such taxes have been criticised on the basis of their regressivity and potentially adverse impact upon poverty. This paper … analyses the effect of such taxes on a range of poverty measures and also examines the effect of a revenueneutral tax subsidy … neutral with respect to poverty. …
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Recent advances in the measurement of bi-dimensional poverty are applied to a measure of poverty which incorporates … income and health poverty. The correlation between income and poverty is examined using the Receiver Operating … Characteristics curve. Following from this unidimensional and bi-dimensional poverty indices are calculated for Ireland for the years …
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This paper examines anonymous and non-anonymous Growth Incidence Curves (GICs) for after-tax disposable income for Ireland during its recovery period after the Great Recession, 2012-19. In the absence of suitable panel data the non-anonymous GICs were constructed on a cohort basis with cohorts...
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This paper examines multidimensional poverty for three waves of a cohort of Irish children ranging from ages 9 to 17 …. Poverty is measured over the dimensions of health, education and family resources and both unidimensional and multidimensional … poverty is examined. Both show a clear gradient with respect to maternal education. The dynamics of both unidimensional and …
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This paper applies the methodology of Ravallion and Chen in calculating growth incidence curves for Ireland over the 2003-2011 period, using measures of equivalised disposable income from the Survey of Income and Living Conditions (SILC). These curves provide an indication of growth at different...
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Numerous papers have documented a positive association between height and good physical health and also with good economic outcomes such as earnings. A smaller number have argued for an association with well-being. In this paper, cross-country data from Europe is used to analyse whether...
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