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While poverty has long been a phenomenon closely related to the life cycle of family, in recent decades is increasingly … between work intensity and poverty is only at its beginning in transition countries. Using statistical surveys EU-SILC we … analyse the specific effect of work intensity on two indicators of poverty – "at-risk-of-poverty rate", and the “making ends …
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The authors' approach to the ethical and political aspects of inter-temporal interactions is the following: 1) Two representative agents Ra and Râ are analyzed and asymmetries in their wealth and voting powers are dealt with by a the text-book tool of a welfare function - its intra and...
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A social rate of discount is an important variable for cost-benefit analysis. Its size can be crucial for an approval (or disapproval) of the project under evaluation, therefore it is important to have a theoretically founded estimate of the discount rate. There are two main approaches to...
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reducing poverty and increasing the incomes of the poorest households, and on its potential negative impact on regional labour … effective in decreasing poverty so far. …
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Paper analyzes the Czech social security and tax system as their redistribution aspects are concerned. On a basis of individual data, authors find that social security programs are usually properly targeted but that the tax breaks favor richer households. A microanalysis of tax expenditures is...
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