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Disentangling income inequality and the redistributive effect of taxes and transfers in 20 LIS countries over time

Caminada, Koen; Goudswaard, Kees; Wang, Chen - 2012

redistribution in a comparative setting. We use micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study to examine household market inequality … increase in primary household inequality in all 20 countries over the last 25 years (except Ireland). In most countries, the … income inequality, although they appear to have become less effective in doing so since the mid-1990s. We find that the …

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Disentangling income inequality and the redistributive effect of taxes and transfers in 20 LIS countries over time

Caminada, Koen; Goudswaard, Kees Pieter; Wang, Chen - 2012

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Nowcasting and Forecasting the Monthly Food Stamps Data in the US Using Online Search Data

Fantazzini, Dean - 2014

We propose the use of Google online search data for nowcasting and forecasting the number of food stamps recipients. We perform a large out-of-sample forecasting exercise with almost 3000 competing models with forecast horizons up to 2 years ahead, and we show that models including Google search...

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Food Insecurity in the US During the Pandemic : What Can We Learn from Real-Time Data?

Ayllón, Sara; Lado, Samuel - 2021

We study the potential effect of the declaration of the state of emergency, the beginning and end of the stay-at-home orders, and the one-off Economic Impact Payments on food insecurity in the United States during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. We use daily data from Google Trends...

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Welfare Reform in the United States : A Descriptive Policy Analysis

Martin, Megan - 2010

Poverty alleviation is an important objective of European countries and of the United States. If these ‘rich' states offer elaborate systems of income maintenance, why is there still a considerable amount of poverty? And why are anti-poverty outcomes so different in the United States compared...

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Local electoral rewards from centralized social programs : are mayors getting the credit?

Rodríguez-Chamussy, Lourdes - 2015

This paper uses variation in the timing of the Mexican antipoverty program's introduction across municipalities to identify its impact on the share of votes for the local incumbent party. Evidence is found that voters reward the mayor's party for the central benefit to their constituencies,...

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Why does the amount of income redistribution differ between United States and Europe? The Janus face of Switzerland

Akkoyunlu, Sule; Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2009

In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is compared and empirically related to economic, political, and behavioral determinants elaborated in the literature. Lying in between the two poles, Switzerland provides unique evidence...

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