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Household incomes and redistribution in the European Union : quantifying the equalising properties of taxes and benefits
Immervoll, Herwig; Levy, Horacio; Lietz, Christine; … - 2006
The systems of direct taxes and cash benefits in the Member States of the European Union vary considerably in size and structure. We explore their direct impacts on cross-sectional income inequality (termed "redistributive effect" for the purpose of this paper) using EUROMOD, a tax-benefit...
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Justice profiles in Europe : major differences in evaluation of inequality
Moya, Cristóbal; Adriaans, Jule - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 12 (2022) 9/10, pp. 67-73
European societies have been experiencing growing income and wealth inequalities over the past few decades, and, accordingly, they are a topic of intense discussion. Although the population’s evaluation of inequalities as just or unjust is important for designing social policies, there has...
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A comparison of earnings justice throughout Europe : widespread approval in Germany for income distribution according to need and equity
Adriaans, Jule; Eisnecker, Philipp; Liebig, Stefan - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 44/45, pp. 397-404
The present study compares the perceptions of fairness of national earned incomes between the populations of Germany and the rest of Europe based on recent data from the European Social Survey (ESS). The vast majority of European respondents consider very low gross earned incomes to be unjustly...
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Measurement of Income Distribution in Supranational Entities : The Case of the European Union
Brandolini, Andrea - 2007
Greater social cohesion is an explicit goal of the European Union. Progress is monitored considering the performance in each member country on the basis of national indicators; EU-wide estimates of inequality and poverty play no role. Yet this is a basic information to evaluate the progress of...
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Similarity of Income Distributions and the Extensive and Intensive Margin of Bilateral Trade Flows
Bernasconi, Claudia - 2013
This paper investigates empirically how similarity of demand structures - approximated by similarity of income distributions - affects trade patterns along both the extensive and intensive margin. The idea that similarity of demand structures intensifies trade goes back to the well-known Linder...
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An investigation of the nexus between globalisation dimensions and income inequality
Tamasauskiene, Zita; Žičkienė, Skaidrė - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 9 (2021) 2, pp. 39-53
Objective: The objective of the article is to explore the nexus between changes of various globalisation dimensions, defined by either policy (de jure) or outcomes (de facto), and the rise in income inequality in a panel of 27 EU countries during the period 1998-2017. Research Design & Methods:...
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Social stability challenged: pandemics, inequality and policy responses
Perugini, Cristiano; Vladisavljević, Marko - 2020
The public health measures implemented by governments to limit the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic will produce significant economic consequences that are likely to exacerbate social and economic inequalities. In this paper we provide a framework to analyse how income inequality, besides other...
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Democratic Inequality in Postcommunist Europe
Roberts, Andrew - 2010
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Foreign aid responses to political liberalization
Reinsberg, Bernhard - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 75 (2015), pp. 46-61
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Does democracy make taller men? : cross-country European evidence
Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan - 2021 - This version: January 2022
We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual …-level datasets, we test the hypothesis using a battery of eight different measures of democracy and derived averages, and include … models accounting for several confounders, regional and cohort fixed effects. We document that democracy - or its quality …
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