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Microsimulation of tax-benefit systems in the Global South : a comparative assessment
Lastunen, Jesse; Mahieu, Antoine de; Gasior, Katrin; … - 2024
This paper analyses the effectiveness of tax-benefit systems in reducing poverty and inequality across 13 countries in the Global South. Using national survey data and tax-benefit microsimulation models from the SOUTHMOD project, we provide a cross-country perspective on the redistributive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534792
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Top earners and earnings inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic : evidence from Ecuadorian administrative data
Bargain, Olivier; Carrillo-Maldonado, Paul; Jara, H. Xavier - 2023
their monthly earnings during the pandemic compared to those of the rest of the registered workforce. Our analysis shows …-pandemic earnings distribution. Conditional on being in registered employment, mean earnings also dropped in the second quarter of 2020 … across all earning groups (top and non-top). By the end of 2021, earnings had recovered for non-top earners and the top 10 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013549884
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What explains the gender gap in top incomes in developing countries? : evidence from Ecuador
Oliva, Nicolás; Jara, H. Xavier; Rattenhuber, Pia - 2021
Based on tax records data from Ecuador, we analyse gender differences in top income groups from 2008 to 2017. Ecuador represents an interesting case as it shares many trends with other countries in the region in terms of women's status in the labour market. While we observe a significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550292
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The mitigating role of tax and benefit rescue packages for poverty and inequality in Africa amid the COVID-19 pandemic
Lastunen, Jesse; Rattenhuber, Pia; Adu-Ababio, Kwabena; … - 2021
-benefit policies stabilized earnings losses. We then evaluate the impact on income-based poverty and inequality and the contribution of … inequality, and somewhat larger effects on the poverty gap due to lower relative earnings losses of the poor population at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650881
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Second earners and in-work poverty in Europe
Jara, H. Xavier; Popova, Daria - 2020
Dual or multiple earnership has been considered an important factor to prevent in-work poverty. The aim of this paper is to quantify the impact of second earnership on the risk of in-work poverty and the role of the tax-benefit systems in moderating this risk. Our analysis refers to 2014 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293634
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Fuel subsidies and income redistribution in Ecuador
Jara, H. Xavier; Lee, Po Chun; Montesdeoca, Lourdes; … - 2018
This paper aims to evaluate the progressivity of different fuel subsidies in Ecuador as well as the budgetary and distributional effects of a potential elimination of such subsidies. Our analysis makes use of ECUAMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ecuador, together with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011938142
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Assessing the effectiveness of social protection measures in mitigating COVID-19-related income shocks in the European Union
Gasior, Katrin; Jara, H. Xavier; Makovec, Mattia - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014364317
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Back to Bentham, Should We? Large-Scale Comparison of Experienced versus Decision Utility
Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier B.; Jara, H. Xavier - 2017
Subjective well-being (SWB) data is increasingly used to perform welfare analyses. In- terpreted as 'experienced utility', SWB has recently been compared to 'decision utility' using specific experiments, most often based on stated preferences. Results point to an overall congruence between these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630720
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Microsimulation of tax-benefit systems in the Global South: A comparative assessment
Lastunen, Jesse; de Mahieu, Antoine; Gasior, Katrin; … - 2024
This paper analyses the effectiveness of tax-benefit systems in reducing poverty and inequality across 13 countries in the Global South. Using national survey data and tax-benefit microsimulation models from the SOUTHMOD project, we provide a cross-country perspective on the redistributive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014548563
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Top earners and earnings inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Ecuadorian administrative data
Bargain, Olivier; Carrillo-Maldonado, Paul; Jara, H. Xavier - 2023
their monthly earnings during the pandemic compared to those of the rest of the registered workforce. Our analysis shows …-pandemic earnings distribution. Conditional on being in registered employment, mean earnings also dropped in the second quarter of 2020 … across all earning groups (top and non-top). By the end of 2021, earnings had recovered for non-top earners and the top 10 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477501