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health and education government spending on income inequality in the European Union over the 2002-2015 period. In this …
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countries – Britain, France and Germany. In the former two countries and the Netherlands, at least for males, the income … countries. In most European countries, unlike the US, there is no evidence that income-related health inequality is greater …An age-cohort decomposition applied to panel data identifies how the mean, overall inequality and income …
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Europe aims at combining income growth with improvements in social cohesion as measured by income and health … growth and the income responsiveness of health. We investigate whether these conditions held in Europe in the nineties using … decompositions to demonstrate that (i) in all countries except Austria, the income elasticity of health is positive and increases …
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Europe aims at combining income growth with improvements in social cohesion as measured by income and health … growth and the income responsiveness of health. We investigate whether these conditions held in Europe in the nineties using … decompositions to demonstrate that (i) in all countries except Austria, the income elasticity of health is positive and increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011350378
countries - Britain, France and Germany. In the former two countries and the Netherlands, at least for males, the income … countries. In most European countries, unlike the US, there is no evidence that income-related health inequality is greater …An age-cohort decomposition applied to panel data identifies how the mean, overall inequality and income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014220782
This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that, with the exception of …
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In summer 1923, pursuant to the 'full powers' granted him by the Parliament to balance the budget, Alberto De Stefani - appointed in October 1922 as Mussolini's Treasury Minister - announced the abolition of inheritance tax. The most iconic act of Fascist 'financial restauration' of 1922-25, the...
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This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that the percentage of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028508
We examine the relationship between perceived income positions and attitudes towards inequality at a supranational …-level. Conducting a survey in four EU Member States (Germany, Italy, Poland, and Sweden), we confirm that their citizens misperceive … their own income position in the EU. Once we account for these misperceptions, we find that those with a lower income rank …
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The relationship between income inequality and polarization is an empirical fact: a change in equality might occur … outcome of this process entails relevant information about the evolution of the income distribution. We exploit the LIS micro … disposable income distributions evolved over time. The results indicate that polarization increased in all the considered …
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