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Comparing the incidence of taxes and social spending in Brazil and the United States
Higgins, Sean; Lustig, Nora; Ruble, Whitney; Smeeding, … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013
We perform the first comprehensive fiscal incidence analyses in Brazil and the US, including direct cash and food transfers, targeted housing and heating subsidies, public spending on education and health, and personal income, payroll, corporate income, property, and expenditure taxes. In both...
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Deconstructing the decline in inequality in Latin America
Lustig, Nora; Lopez-Calva, Luis F.; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013
Inequality in Latin America unambiguously declined in the 2000s. The Gini coefficient fell in 16 of the 17 countries … main explanations for the decline in inequality: a reduction in hourly labor income inequality, and more robust and … hourly labor income inequality. The causes behind the decline in returns to schooling, however, have not been unambiguously …
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Declining inequality in Latin America in the 2000s : the cases of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico
Lustig, Nora; Lopez-Calva, Luis F.; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2012
statistically significant and robust to changes in the time interval, inequality measures, and data sources. In-depth country …
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Taxes, Transfers, and Income Redistribution in Latin America
Lustig, Nora - In: World Bank - Inequality in Focus 1 (2012) 2, pp. 1-5
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