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The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Latin America : Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Hondu...
Lustig, Nora - 2016
equalizing in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay and also in Chile, Costa Rica and Ecuador but, in the latter, their effect is small … countries tend to redistribute more. Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Peru redistribute below the trend …; Chile, Ecuador and Mexico are on trend; and, Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica and Uruguay redistribute above the trend. Fiscal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983141
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Training quality and earnings: The effects of competition on the provision of public-sponsored training programs
Chong, Alberto; Galdo, José - 2006
programs. In particular, we study the link between training quality and labor earnings using a Peruvian program that targets … disadvantaged youths. Multiple proxies for training quality are identified from bidding processes in which public and private …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278300
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Commitment to Equity Assessment (CEQ). A diagnostic framework to assess governments’ fiscal policies. Handbook
Lustig, Nora - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
of good quality and incentive compatible; iv. collect and publish relevant information, as well as are subject to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009249979
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Fiscal Incidence, Fiscal Mobility and the Poor: a New Approach
Lustig, Nora; Higgins, Sean - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012
Taxes and transfers can have significant impacts on poverty and inequality. All standard measures are by definition anonymous in the sense that we do not know the identity of winners and losers. That a given combination of taxes and transfers makes some of the poor poorer, however, may be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098387
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Fiscal Incidence, Fiscal Mobility and the Poor: A New Approach
Lustig, Nora; Higgins, Sean - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2012
Taxes and transfers can have significant impacts on poverty and inequality. All standard measures are by definition anonymous in the sense that we do not know the identity of winners and losers. That a given combination of taxes and transfers makes some of the poor poorer, however, may be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904625
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Fiscal Incidence, Fiscal Mobility and the Poor : A New Approach
Lustig, Nora - 2012
Taxes and transfers can have significant impacts on poverty and inequality. All standard measures are by definition anonymous in the sense that we do not know the identity of winners and losers. That a given combination of taxes and transfers makes some of the poor poorer, however, may be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103596
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Exploring the Impacts of Public Childcare on Mothers and Children in Italy: Does Rationing Play a Role?
Brilli, Ylenia; Del Boca, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara - Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, … - 2011
This paper investigates the effects of public childcare availability in Italy on mothers' working status and children's scholastic achievements. We use a newly available dataset containing individual standardized test scores of pupils attending second grade of primary school in 2008-09 in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369423
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Exploring the Impacts of Public Childcare on Mothers and Children in Italy: Does Rationing Play a Role?
Brilli, Ylenia; Del Boca, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper investigates the effects of public childcare availability in Italy on mothers' working status and children's scholastic achievements. We use a newly available dataset containing individual standardized test scores of pupils attending second grade of primary school in 2008-09 in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283582