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Between 2003 and 2009, Argentina's social spending as a share of GDP increased by 7.6 percentage points. Marginal … between 2003 and 2009 and entailed a redistribution of income to the poor, and from the formal sector pensioners with above …
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Between 2003 and 2009, Argentina’s social spending as a share of GDP increased by 7.6 percentage points. Marginal … between 2003 and 2009 and entailed a redistribution of income to the poor, and from the formal sector pensioners with above …
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Korpi and Palme (1998) famously suggested the existence of a Paradox of Redistribution:although programs targeted to … harmonized by LIS. My results showthat the relationship between the redistribution obtained by social transfers and their pro … the rich are unable to reachdown the income ladder and remain stuck at very low levels of redistribution.This reflects how …
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This paper explores the link between default risk and fiscal procyclicality. We show that countries with higher sovereign risk have a more procyclical fiscal expenditure policy, which is driven mostly by transfers. We build a small open economy model with income inequality, social transfers, and...
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This paper aims at analyzing the contribution of social policies to declining rates of income inequalities in Brazil since the 1990s. Based on a framework of historical institutionalism, Brazil is characterised as a traditionally patrimonial society, marked by the institution of slavery....
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This paper aims at analyzing the effects of social policies on income inequalities in South Africa since the 1990s. Based on a framework of historical institutionalism, the heritage of a distributional regime based on institutional racism is highlighted. This had lasting effects on social...
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