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What Drives Inequality and Poverty in the EU? Exploring the Impact of Macroeconomic and Institutional Factors
Dafermos, Yannis - 2018
Employing panel data techniques, we investigate the macroeconomic and institutional determinants of inequality and poverty in the EU over the period 1994–2008. We pay particular attention to the effects of macroeconomic environment, social protection and labour market institutions. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937941
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Cross-Country Evidence on the Distributional Impact of Fiscal Policy
Salotti, Simone - 2018
This paper provides new evidence on the distributional effects of fiscal policy using data on a panel of OECD economies over the last four decades. We study how four measures of income inequality and poverty respond to several stock and flow variables accounting for fiscal actions. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938135
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The global inequality boomerang
Kanbur, Ravi; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo; Sumner, Andrew - 2022
In this paper we argue that the decline in global inequality over the last decades has spurred a 'sunshine' narrative of falling global inequality that has been rather oversold, in the sense, we argue, it is likely to be temporary. We argue the decline in global inequality will reverse due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012887946
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214250
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The unequal inequality impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
Darvas, Zsolt M. - 2021
positive GDP growth of China, which suggests that within-country inequality in the world's most populous country might have not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012507140
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Luck Egalitarianism, Responsibility, and Political Liberalism
Long, Ryan - 2017
Luck egalitarians argue that distributive justice should be understood in terms of our capacity to be responsible for our choices. Both proponents and critics assume that the theory must rely on a comprehensive conception of responsibility. I respond to luck egalitarianism's critics by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962476
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Political conditionality and foreign aid
Molenaers, Nadia; Avellaneda, Sebastian Dellepiane; … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 75 (2015), pp. 2-12
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Individual preferences, human capital, and economic development
Vischer, Thomas - 2012
democracy. With respect to risky choice behavior, a multitude of empirical evidence shows the disconformity of human behavior …, the political economy literature considers economic development itself as an important determinant of democracy. The fifth … study of the dissertation investigates the effect of income on democracy, based on the premise that the theory of critical …
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COVID-19 and global distributive justice
Mah, Jai S. - In: Journal of economic issues 57 (2023) 4, pp. 1322-1338
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Distributional effects of subsidizing retirement savings accounts : evidence from Germany
Corneo, Giacomo; Schröder, Carsten; König, Johannes - 2015
We empirically investigate the distributional consequences of the Riester scheme, the main private pension subsidization program in Germany. We find that 38% of the aggregate subsidy accrues to the top two deciles of the population, but only 7.3% to the bottom two. Nonetheless the Riester scheme...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281656