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This contribution investigates the form and content of a new and updated European Union (EU) legal framework intended to regulate third-country import pipelines for gas, including the ‘upstream' component of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. The article will first set the scene and examine the...
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understanding of redistribution mechanisms within countries and facilitates crosscountry comparisons. As a first step, our analysis …
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examined countries. While direct taxes and cash benefits are the main drivers of redistribution, in-kind benefits also play a … EU Member States. Our new, broader approach allows for more accurate assessments of redistribution and cross …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between economic growth, inequality and redistribution. In a cross-country setting … the short run. To estimate the impact of redistribution to low-income earners, we introduce a new measure, the so …-called net benefit share (NBS). Contrary to other findings, we show that this (targeted) redistribution to lowincome earners (Q1 …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between economic growth, inequality and redistribution. In a cross-country setting … the short run. To estimate the impact of redistribution to low-income earners, we introduce a new measure, the so …-called net benefit share (NBS). Contrary to other findings, we show that this (targeted) redistribution to low income earners (Q1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014483700
The Great Recession and the resulting European debt crisis revived a debate about deeper fiscal integration in the Eurozone. We discuss different alternatives how an unemployment insurance system for the euro area could be designed and run counterfactual simulations based on micro data to...
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lead to moderate gains in terms of stabilization while redistribution would flow especially towards the Eastern European …
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lead to moderate gains in terms of stabilization while redistribution would flow especially towards the Eastern European …
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This paper develops a decomposition framework to study the importance of different stabilization channels of an unemployment re-insurance scheme for the euro area. Running counterfactual simulations based on household micro data for the period 2000–16, the paper finds that the re-insurance...
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We apply microsimulation techniques to estimate the first-order effects of tax-benefit policy changes since the beginning of the financial and economic crisis in 2008. Using the EU tax-benefit model EUROMOD in combination with the EU-SILC 2012 micro-data, we provide comparative estimates for...
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