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Preisunterschiede mildern Einkommensgefälle zwischen West und Ost
Goebel, Jan; Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 51/52, pp. 888-894
Unter Berücksichtigung neuer Informationen zu regionalen Preisniveaus in Deutschland fallen die realen Einkommensunterschiede zwischen West- und Ostdeutschland geringer aus als bisher berechnet. Nach Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP) und den vom Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung...
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The financial development and poverty nexus : the role of the institutions
Majeed, Muhammad Tariq; Shehzadi, Iram; Siddique, Hafiz … - In: Pakistan journal of applied economics : PJAE 31 (2021) 1, pp. 47-75
poverty for a panel of 35 developed and 79 developing countries over the period 1984-2013 using two-stage least squares … institutions mitigate poverty, with the latter being more efficient than the former. The institutions strengthen the ability of the … financial system to alleviate poverty. Further, the empirics state that both access(outreach) and depth (credit extension) of …
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A survey of inclusive growth policy
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk; Wood, Jacob - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 3/65, pp. 1-18
Background: Since the latter part of the 20th Century, countries have been particularly challenged by the trade-off that exists between delivering generous welfare provisions and strong economic growth. Such dynamics have stimulated a need to better understand the causes of income inequality so...
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Chapter 6 Income poverty in advanced countries
Jäntti, Markus; Danziger, Sheldon - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 1, (pp. 309-378). 2000
This chapter reviews definitional issues that arise in assessing the extent of, and change in, poverty in western … industrialized countries, including the choice of resource, level of poverty line and appropriate adjustments for the size and type … market income poverty can have very different poverty rates once taxes and transfers have been received. Cross …
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Chapter 11. The Global Distribution of Income
Anand, Sudhir; Segal, Paul - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 937-979). 2015
inequality. Finally, we examine global poverty, which is identified through the lower end of the global distribution. …
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Chapter 8. Post-1970 Trends in Within-Country Inequality and Poverty : Rich and Middle-Income Countries
Morelli, Salvatore; Smeeding, Timothy; Thompson, Jeffrey - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 593-696). 2015
in poverty and income inequality, up to 2010 or 2011 in most countries. We provide measures of the levels and trends in … each of these areas, as well as an integrated discussion of empirical choices made in the measurement of poverty, overall …
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Chapter 10 Taxation
Kaplow, Louis - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 1, (pp. 647-755). 2007
This Handbook entry presents a conceptual, normative overview of the subject of taxation. It emphasizes the relationships among the main functions of taxation—notably, raising revenue, redistributing income, and correcting externalities—and the mapping between these functions and various...
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How taxes and spending on education influence economic growth in Poland
Konopczyński, Michał - In: Contemporary economics 8 (2014) 3, pp. 329-347
This paper investigates the relationship between economic growth in Poland and four types of taxes and human capital investment. We primarily rely on an exogenous growth model that merges the Mankiw-Romer-Weil model, augmented with learning-by-doing and spillover-effects, with selected elements...
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Rising skill premium and the dynamics of optimal capital and labor taxation
Tsai, Yi-Chan; Yang, C. C.; Yu, Hsin-Jung - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 3, pp. 1061-1099
With capital‐skill complementarity, the secular decline in the price of capital equipment due to equipment‐specific technological progress (ESTP) keeps pushing up the demand for skilled relative to unskilled labor and raising the skill premium. This paper quantitatively characterizes the...
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How taxes, education and public capital influence economic growth in Poland
Konopczyński, Michał - In: Contemporary economics 12 (2018) 3, pp. 337-360
This paper investigates the relationship between economic growth in Poland and selected elements of fiscal policy and private spending on education. We use the Mankiw-Romer-Weil model, augmented with learning-by-doing and spillover-effects and with concepts from the literature on optimal fiscal...
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