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Growth and income redistribution components of changes in poverty : a decomposition analysis for Ireland, 1987 - 2005
Are, Wasiu Adekunle - 2012
tax systems. We also investigated the extent to which economic growth experienced over the survey period has been pro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733719
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An alternative measure of economic inequality in the light of optics
Majumder, Amlan - 2014
An ideal state of development, when viewed with fantasy, is nothing but a state or condition where light touches everybody without refraction. The diagonal line of the Lorenz Curve Framework represents such an ideal condition. In the presence of inequality, however, it deviates or refracts from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011525663
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Estimates of the world distribution of personal incomes based on country sample clones
Kot, Stanisław Maciej - 2016
In this paper, the world distribution of personal incomes (WDPI) is estimated using a global sample comprising country sample clones. A clone is a random sample that reproduces – with predetermined high probability and precision – an unknown survey sample using information that is 'encoded'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011802308
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Health and health inequality during the Great Recession : evidence from the PSID
Wang, Chenggang; Wang, Huixia; Halliday, Timothy - 2017 - Last update: October 3, 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011892353
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Heterogeneity in macroeconomics : the compositional inequality perspective
Ranaldi, Marco; Palagi, Elisa - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014316140
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Does fleet street shape politics? : Estimating the effect of newspaper coverage about globalization on the support for unemployment insurance
Protte, Benjamin - 2012
In this paper, I quantify the role of media in the formation of support for unemployment insurance. Theory suggests that individuals who feel threatened by globalization demand compensatory policies. Using a novel method of quantitative text analysis, I derive measures on the stance to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490098
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How tight are safety-nets in Nordic Countries? : evidence from Finnish register data
Bargain, Olivier (contributor);  … - 2007
post-recession period (1996-2003). Possible errors due to time-period issues and discretionary measures by local agencies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003616629
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A theory of child targeting
Bargain, Olivier (contributor); Donni, Olivier (contributor) - 2007
the adult's utility function, which depends on the child's welfare, subject to a budget constraint. The relative effects … of a price subsidy and of a cash benefit on child welfare are then derived. In particular, it is shown that 'favorable … ; intrahousehold distribution ; social welfare ; paternalism ; labeling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003581183
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No claim, no pain : measuring the non-take-up of social assistance using register data
Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Viitamäki, Heikki - 2009
simulations based on the tax-benefit calculator of the Finnish authorities, carefully investigating the measurement issues that … suggest that changes in behavior could drive the observed downward trend in take-up rates during the post-recession period. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725469
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Tax-benefit revealed redistributive preferences over time : Ireland 1987 - 2005
Bargain, Olivier; Keane, Claire - 2010
Irish government between 1987 and 2005. The (marginal) social welfare function revealed by this approach is consistently … over the past 30 years. Some "anomalies" in the revealed social welfare function suggests introducing transfers to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009729273