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Ireland is one of the countries most severely affected by the Great Recession. National income fell by more than 10 per … crisis, and deep fiscal adjustment. This paper examines the income distribution consequences of the recession, and identifies … per cent between 2008 and 2011, but the greatest losses were strongly concentrated on the bottom and top deciles. Tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009765520
Ireland is one of the countries most severely affected by the Great Recession. National income fell by more than 10 per … crisis, and deep fiscal adjustment. This paper examines the income distribution consequences of the recession, and identifies … per cent between 2008 and 2011, but the greatest losses were strongly concentrated on the bottom and top deciles. Tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009761408
There is a growing literature comparing the current financial crisis or Great Recession to the worst economic crisis of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289390
through 2006, and its debt-income ratio rose dramatically, unlike the ratio for the top 5 percent. In the Great Recession, the …
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The Great Recession had a tremendous impact on low-income Americans, in particular black and Latino Americans. The … in overall economic well-being and inequality as well as changes in racial economic inequality over the Great Recession …, during the Great Recession racial inequality in terms of the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being (LIMEW) decreased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591483
The Great Recession and the widespread adoption of fiscal austerity policies have heightened concern about inequality … and how well tax-benefit systems redistribute. We examine how the distribution of income in the EU countries which were … hardest hit during the recession evolved over this time. Using and extending a recently developed framework (Savage et al …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864980
The Great Recession and the widespread adoption of fiscal austerity policies have heightened concern about inequality … and how well tax-benefit systems redistribute. We examine how the distribution of income in the EU countries which were … hardest hit during the recession evolved over this time. Using and extending a recently developed framework (Savage et al …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011821286
through 2006, and its debt- income ratio rose dramatically, unlike the ratio for the top 5 percent. In the Great Recession …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013300012
The economic crisis of 2008/9 was felt more acutely in Ireland relative to elsewhere and culminated in the international bailout in 2010. Given the economic collapse, Ireland provides an ideal case-study of the link between wealth collapses and movements in variables such as health and...
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This paper investigated the link between inflation and the top decile income share after the global financial crisis. The analysis was done on a sample of 42 countries. We found that higher inflation has reduced the income going to the top decile. The main explanation is that inflation has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010374488