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tax-benefit microsimulation model for Russia (RUSMOD) which is based upon the EUROMOD platform. RUSMOD simulates the …
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reduce inequality. The comparative analysis highlights the possibility of adopting strategies to reduce the financial burden …
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This paper uses income and expenditure surveys from 1992 to 2014 and public tax and spending accounts to estimate the redistributive impact of Mexico's fiscal system over this period. It presents standard and marginal benefit incidence analysis for the principal public transfers (education,...
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In this paper, we use a static fiscal incidence analysis model to evaluate the poverty and inequality impacts of using … substantially reduce poverty and inequality to varying degrees depending on the taxes and transfers used. …
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Estonia. It makes use of microsimulation modelling approach and applies the EU tax-benefit model EUROMOD to quantify the first … both poverty and inequality reducing. Alternative policy scenarios indicate that, among the considered options, increasing … incentives at low and middle-income levels together with modest reductions in poverty and inequality. This Working Paper relates …
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This testimony makes three main points. First, income volatility, especially when it involves income declines, imposes significant hardships on American families. It heightens stress about finances and may increase household living expenses. These hardships are most pronounced for middle-and...
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This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … effects by producing counterfactual ("no reform") scenarios using tax-benefit microsimulation and representative household …
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This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … effects by producing counterfactual ("no reform") scenarios using tax-benefit microsimulation and representative household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212556
This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … effects by producing counterfactual ("no reform") scenarios using tax-benefit microsimulation and representative household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212995
In this paper, I first summarize how the US Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) operates and describe the characteristics of recipients. I then discuss empirical work on the effects of the EITC on poverty and income distribution, and its effects on labor supply. Next, I discuss a few policy concerns...
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