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This study analysed the contribution of economic growth and redistribution components to aggregate poverty changes in … changes into growth and redistribution components revealed that the growth component dominates the redistribution component in …
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Welfare programs are important in terms of reducing poverty, although they create incentives for recipients to maximize their income by either reducing their labor supply or manipulating their taxable income. In this paper, we quantify the extent of such behavioral responses for the Earned...
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determine a "perverse redistribution", in which poorer households subsidize the higher education for richer households. With … perverse redistribution in higher education. The model also analyzes the role of local progressivity in higher education choice … and redistribution. We provide empirical validation for our model's conclusions across European-OECD countries. …
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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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, wealth inequality in the EA decreases with unexpected inflation, although in some countries (Austria, Germany and Malta …) inequality increases due to presence of relatively few young borrowing HHs. We document that HHs inflation exposure varies …
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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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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...
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the population, and so economic growth. To our knowledge, this is the only possibility for the inequality to be "bought …
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