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The importance of income-tested benefits in good times and bad: Lessons from EU countries

Leventi, Chrysa; Rastrigina, Olga; Sutherland, Holly - 2016

Policy over the past years has seen a gradual movement away from universal social benefits towards the provision of more targeted benefit schemes. Using the European tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD, this paper aims to compare the effectiveness of income-tested benefits at different...

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The importance of income-tested benefits in good times and bad : lessons from EU countries

Leventi, Chrysa; Rastrigina, Olga; Sutherland, Holly - 2016

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Tax and benefit reforms to support employment and inclusiveness and address poverty in Italy

Bulman, Tim; Pacifico, Daniele; Pisu, Mauro; … - 2019

This paper assesses Italy’s 2019 tax and benefit reforms, analyses hypothetical reforms and proposes a reform package that balances goals of reducing poverty, encouraging employment and fiscal sustainability. Using the OECD’s Tax-Benefit and the EUROMOD microsimulation models, it shows that...

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Medicaid and Wealth: An Examination Using the NLSY79

Gittleman, Maury - Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor - 2011

Do public insurance programs crowd out private savings? I examine the relationship between Medicaid and wealth and make a contribution to the literature on this issue in three primary ways. First, I apply the instrumental-variables approach developed by Gruber and Yelowitz (1999) to a different...

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Rationing Legal Services

Cohen, I. Glenn - 2013

There is a deepening crisis in the funding of legal services in the United States. The House of Representatives has proposed cutting the budget of the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), one of the main funders of legal assistance to America’s poor, to an all time low in inflation-adjusted...

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Inequality as Policy: The United States Since 1979

Schmitt, John - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009

Since the end of the 1970s, the United States has seen a dramatic increase in economic inequality. While the United States has long been among the most unequal of the world’s rich economies, the economic and social upheaval that began in the 1970s was a striking departure from the movement...

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Meeting the Poverty-Reduction MDG in the Southern Cone

Gasparini, Leonardo; Cicowiez, Martín - 2005

This paper assesses the likelihood of meeting the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty by 2015 in Argentina … and vigorous productivity growth seems to be a necessary condition to meet the poverty MDG by 2015 in Argentina, Paraguay …

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Labor Informality Effects of a Poverty-Alleviation Program

Gasparini, Leonardo; Haimovich, Francisco; Olivieri, Sergio - 2007

In the midst of a serious macroeconomic crisis Argentina implemented a large social program – the Programa Jefes de …

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Labor Income Polarization in Greater Buenos Aires

Viollaz, Mariana; Olivieri, Sergio; Alejo, Javier - 2009

This paper presents and analyzes a group of statistics which characterize the level and evolution of the labor income polarization in Greater Buenos Aires over the past two decades (1986-2006). The empirical evidence reveals two stages throughout those years: the first one distinguished by an...

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The distributive Effects of Education: An Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach

Alejo, Javier; Gabrielli, María Florencia; Escudero, … - 2011

Argentina. Standard methods usually focus on mean effects, or explore distributive effects by either making stringent modeling … exibility and usefulness of UQR methods. Our application for the case of Argentina shows that education contributed positively … to increased inequality in Argentina, mostly due to the effect of strongly heterogeneous effects of education on earnings …

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