Is there a link between sexuality and poverty? If so, has this relationship changed over time? What anti-poverty policies might be relevant to address issues related to sexuality and poverty? The report synthesises literature and adds top-line findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Study....

Korean Abstract: 본고는 근로자의 고용형태가 소득분위별 임금 및 소득 분포에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 구체적으로는 Firpo 등 (2009)이 제안한 재중심 영향함수 (Recentered Influence Function, RIF) 를 이용하여 임금근로자중 비정규직...

Over the last years, there was a continuous fall in labor income inequality in Brazil, as measured by household survey inquiries. The major explanatory factors pointed by economists were related to the composition of the workforce (in terms of skills and productive potential) and the...

Social distancing and lockdown measures taken to contain the spread of COVID-19 may have distributional economic costs beyond the contraction of GDP. Here we evaluate the capacity of individuals to work under a lockdown based on a Lockdown Working Ability index which considers their teleworking...

Lea Immel prepared this study while she was working at the Research Group Taxation and Fiscal Policy at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in September 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical...

This paper analyses the first-round effects of hypothetical minimum wage increases on social outcomes in 21 EU countries with a statutory national minimum wage based on a microsimulation approach using EUROMOD. The methodological challenges related to the use of available EU household survey...

This study provides ex-post evidence on the redistributive impact of the minimumwage on disposable household incomes in Germany. Although the reductionof income inequality and poverty were emphasized as policy goals of the of minimumwage introduction, the distributional literature for Germany...

This paper analyzes the effects of hypothetical MW (HMW) increases on social and fiscal outcomes in 21 European Union (EU) countries with a statutory national MW (NMW) based on a microsimulation approach using EUROMOD. The methodological challenges related to the use of available EU household...