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The economics of justice as fairness
Abatemarco, Antonio; Stroffolini, Francesca - 2017
the population, and so economic growth. To our knowledge, this is the only possibility for the inequality to be "bought …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011840488
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How tight are safety-nets in Nordic Countries? : evidence from Finnish register data
Bargain, Olivier (contributor);  … - 2007
The non take-up of social assistance benefits due to claim costs may seriously limit the anti-poverty effect of these programs. Yet, available evidence is fragmented and mostly relies on interview-based data, potentially biased by misreporting and measurement errors on both benefit entitlement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003616629
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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
The main objectives of social assistance benefits, including poverty alleviation and labor-market or social reintegration, can be seriously compromised if support is difficult to access. While recent studies point to high non-take-up rates, existing evidence does not make full use of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725469
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Identifying the value of teamwork : application to professional tennis
Devereux, Kevin - 2018
Do workers vary in their ability to work with others? I compare a given worker's productivity in solitary production to their value-added to team production to identify team skills: a worker's contribution to team production above and beyond that given by general skills. The identifying...
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Hypothetical tax-benefit reforms in Hungary : shifting from tax relief to cash transfers for family support
Christl, Michael; Agúndez García, Ana - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014317163
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Household responses to disability shocks : spousal labor supply, caregiving, and disability insurance
Lee, Siha - 2020
This paper examines married women's time allocation to market hours and spousal care in the event of their husbands' disability and its implications for evaluating the insurance value of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program. First, I find that while spousal labor supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012197295
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Growth and income redistribution components of changes in poverty : a decomposition analysis for Ireland, 1987 - 2005
Are, Wasiu Adekunle - 2012
Ireland from 1987-2005, using the Shapley value decomposition approach. The analysis used the household disposable income data … from the Household Budget Survey to calculate poverty indices. The result of the Shapley value decomposition of poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733719
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On the Structure of Wealth-holding in Pre-Famine Ireland
Cummins, Neil; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2020
Very little is known about wealth-holding and its distribution in Ireland in the past. Here we employ death duty register data to analyse and identify a sample of the top wealth holders in Ireland between the early 1820s and late 1830s. We examine the sources of their wealth and its regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012383872
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An alternative measure of economic inequality in the light of optics
Majumder, Amlan - 2014
presence of inequality, however, it deviates or refracts from the ideal condition. In this paper, I try to measure economic … inequality from the index of refraction. First, I compute such an index for each stratum to evaluate condition in each and then … add all to propose an overall measure of economic inequality, which appears to be a standardised measure of the length of …
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Poverty, inequality and social protection in Myanmar
Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Tarp, Finn - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012939960