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The drive to reduce child poverty is of particular interest in southern Europe, where the subsidiary role of the State in matters of family policy has implied that programmes of public assistance to poor families with children are often meagre or not available at all. The paper examines the...
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International comparisons of inequality based on measures of disposable income may not be valid if the size and incidence of publicly-provided in kind benefits differ across the countries considered. The benefits that are financed by taxation in one country may need to be purchased out of...
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education in seven European countries (Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands and the UK), as part of a …
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We compare the distributional effects of austerity measures that have been introduced in 6 EU countries in the period of large government budget deficits following the 2007-8 financial crisis and subsequent economic downturn. We explore the effects of policy changes presented as "austerity...
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aim of the present paper is twofold: Firstly, we detail the tax mix of four member states of the European Union (Germany … Union ; tax mix of Germany ; the Netherlands ; Spain and United Kingdom …-Mitgliedsländer (Deutschland, Niederlande, Spanien und Großbritannien) ein. Zweitens wird die Verteilung der Steuerlast über reiche und arme …
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