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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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No Claim, No Pain: Measuring the Non-Take-up of Social Assistance Using Register Data
Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Viitamäki, Heikki - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The main objectives of social assistance benefits, including poverty alleviation and labor-market or social reintegration, can be seriously compromised if support is difficult to access. While recent studies point to high non-take-up rates, existing evidence does not make full use of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765224
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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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Minimum-income benefits in OECD countries: policy design, effectiveness and challenges
Immervoll, Herwig - 2009
Almost all OECD countries operate comprehensive minimum-income programmes for working-age individuals, either as last-resort safety nets alongside primary income replacement benefits, or as the principal instrument for delivering social protection. Such safety-net benefits aim primarily at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269647
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How tight are safety-nets in Nordic Countries? Evidence from Finnish register data
Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Viitamäki, Heikki - 2007
The non take-up of social assistance benefits due to claim costs may seriously limit the anti-poverty effect of these programs. Yet, available evidence is fragmented and mostly relies on interview-based data, potentially biased by misreporting and measurement errors on both benefit entitlement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272361
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No claim, no pain: Measuring the non-take-up of social assistance using register data
Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Viitamäki, Heikki - 2009
The main objectives of social assistance benefits, including poverty alleviation and labor-market or social reintegration, can be seriously compromised if support is difficult to access. While recent studies point to high non-take-up rates, existing evidence does not make full use of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292904