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A fresh look at an old question : is pro-poor targeting of cash transfers more effective than universal systems at reducing inequality and poverty?
McKnight, Abigail - 2015
This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty … and inequality. The strength of the relationship varies between countries and in some cases between the all age and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289926
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How does fuel taxation impact new car purchases? : an evaluation using French consumer-level data
Givord, Pauline; Grislain-Letrémy, Céline; Naegele, Helene - 2014
This study evaluates the impact of fuel prices on new car purchases, using exhaustive individual-level data of monthly registration of new private cars in France from 2003 to 2007. Detailed information on the car holder enables us to account for heterogeneous preferences across purchasers. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438022
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Consumers' perceptions of sustainable wine : an exploratory study in France and Italy
Capitello, Roberta; Sirieix, Lucie - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 2/33, pp. 1-19
This study offers new insights into the sustainable wine market by exploring consumers' perceptions of product attributes for six categories of wine that have characteristics of sustainability and one conventional wine. The study investigates product-attribute associations that French and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012021690
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Parental Wealth and Resource Transfers : How They Matter in France For Home Ownership and Living Standards
Spilerman, Seymour; Wolff, Francois-Charles - 2013
The role played by parental wealth in facilitating the life chances and living standards of offspring is a topic of growing interest in stratification research. For working and middle class households much of their intervivos transfers to children is provided in the form of assistance with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014159306
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How Do Fiscal and Labor Policies in France Affect Inequality?
Espinoza, Raphael A. - 2016
This paper explores the impact of fiscal and labor market policies on efficiency, inequality, and fiscal outcomes in … inequality, the main exception being capital income tax cuts. A reduction of the minimum wage has an ambiguous impact on the … could improve overall efficiency, inequality, and fiscal outcomes, for instance if targeted labor tax reductions are offset …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996059
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Family-type subsistence incomes
Koulovatianos, Christos (contributor);  … - 2006
relationship to identify subsistence needs of different family types and to calculate income inequality. -- equivalence scales …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003315161
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Family-Type Subsistence Incomes
Koulovatianos, Christos; Schröder, Carsten; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2007
Different family types may have a fixed flow of consumption costs related to subsistence needs. We use a survey approach in order to identify and estimate such a fixed component of spending for different families. Our method involves making direct questions about the linkup between aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050278
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Assortative Mating and Earnings Inequality in France
Frémeaux, Nicolas; Lefranc, Arnaud - 2017
This paper analyzes economic assortative mating and its contribution to inequality in France. We first provide … inequality between couples. Contrary to previous estimates, we account for possible biases in the estimation of assortative … assortative mating to inequality in couple's potential earnings. Our results indicate a strong degree of assortative mating in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786934
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Assortative mating and earnings inequality in France
Frémeaux, Nicolas; Lefranc, Arnaud - 2017
This paper analyzes economic assortative mating and its contribution to inequality in France. We first provide … inequality between couples. Contrary to previous estimates, we account for possible biases in the estimation of assortative … assortative mating to inequality in couple's potential earnings. Our results indicate a strong degree of assortative mating in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011738840
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Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books
Hills, Thomas; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - 2016
We present the first attempt to construct a long-run historical measure of subjective wellbeing using language corpora from millions of digitized books for the USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. While existing measures go back at most to the 1970s, our measure goes back at least 200...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476047