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How Redistributive is Fiscal Policy in Latin America?: The Case of Chile and Mexico
Castelletti, Barbara - Centre de développement, Organisation de Coopération … - 2013
This paper looks at the incidence of fiscal policy on the income distribution for Chile and Mexico. Notably by … fiscal policy on reducing income inequality. The contrast between the estimates for Chile and Mexico and the rest of OECD … income inequality reduction and shows how these results differ across countries. Our results for Chile and Mexico suggest …
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Charting Income Inequality: The Lorenz Curve
Bellù, Lorenzo G.; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper explains how to build Lorenz Curves for income distributions and discusses their use for inequality measurement. A short conceptual background, a step-by-step procedure and a simple numerical example illustrate how to calculate and draw Lorenz Curves. A discussion on the use of Lorenz...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919738
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Social Welfare Analysis of Income Distributions: Ranking Income Distributions with Crossing Generalised Lorenz Curves
Bellù, Lorenzo Giovanni; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper illustrates how Crossing Generalised Lorenz (GL) curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options. It starts by illustrating two alternative income distributions...
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Money or kindergarten? Distributive effects of cash versus in-kind family transfers for young children
Förster, Michael F.; Verbist, Gerlinde - Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid - Herman Deleeck, … - 2013
Public support to families with pre-school children can be in the form of cash benefits (e.g. child allowances) or of “in-kind” support (e.g. care services such as kindergartens). The mix of these support measures varies greatly across OECD countries, from a cash / in-kind composition of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010765091
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Money or Kindergarten? Distributive Effects of Cash Versus In-Kind Family Transfers for Young Children
Förster, Michael F.; Verbist, Gerlinde - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2012
Public support to families with pre-school children can be in the form of cash benefits (e.g. child allowances) or of “in-kind” support (e.g. care services such as kindergartens). The mix of these support measures varies greatly across OECD countries, from a cash / in-kind composition of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277057
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Malaysian Development Experience:Lessons for Developing Countries
Zin, Ragayah Haji Mat - In: Institutions and Economies (formerly known as … 6 (2014) 1, pp. 17-56
This paper describes the policies pursued by Malaysia in her attempt to attain growth with equity, which she has achieved relatively well. These include education provision and employment creation, export-oriented industrialisation, rural development, and restructuring equity ownership and asset...
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Desigualdad, movilidad, pobreza: necesidad de una política diferente
Claudio, Sapelli - In: Estudios Públicos (2014) 134, pp. 59-84
In Chile, income is distributed on a substantially more equitable basis among younger generations than older …
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As SIMPL As That: Introducing a Tax-Benefit Microsimulation Model for Poland
Bargain, Olivier; Socha, Mieczysław Wacław; Morawski, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The Polish tax and benefit system is presented in the context of a recently developed microsimulation model, SIMPL. The model allows simulating direct taxes, social contributions and public benefits in Poland for the years 2003 and 2005. It is based on the Household Budgets Survey data (Badania...
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A Single-Mindedness model with n generations
Emanuele, Canegrati - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper I will analyse the redistribution of income amongst n generations using the Single-mindedness Theory. I will introduce a new expression for the balanced-budget constraint, no longer based on lump- sum transfers as in the traditional literature, but rather on more realistic labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835397
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Assessing the Predictive Power of Vulnerability Measures:Evidence from Panel Data for Argentina and Chile
Bergolo, Marcelo; Cruces, Guillermo; Ham, Andrés - In: Journal of Income Distribution 21 (2012) 1, pp. 28-64
micro levels based on short and long term panel data for Argentina and Chile. It then compares their performance to that of …
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