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from each other. The imputed income from publicly provided education reduces inequality by between 3 and 4 Gini points and …Publicly provided education is both an important public expenditure and a relevant in-kind transfer, often to the … poorest households. This paper compares three methods to value education services and their distributive impact. The methods …
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This paper analyses two tax reform bills that are being discussed at the Brazilian National Congress, by comparing them and pointing their advantages and drawbacks. Moreover, the paper provides four empirical contributions to the debate: i) neutral rate estimates for the new Goods and Services...
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This paper analyses two tax reform bills that are being discussed at the Brazilian National Congress, by comparing them and pointing their advantages and drawbacks. Moreover, the paper provides four empirical contributions to the debate: i) neutral rate estimates for the new Goods and Services...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156457
opportunities and challenges for deployment of digital games and gaming in fields such as wellness and aging, education and …
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and inequality, and by their distributional characteristic. Our findings suggest that public transfers can be effective … unit subsidies limit the redistributive, poverty and inequality impacts of even the most targeted social assistance …
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estimate the welfare consequences of these food price increases, and their distribution across households. Because Brazil is a …
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2000s. Since the recession, there was a rise in inequality and poverty levels and aggregate welfare decreased. While … transfers and unemployment compensation failed to address rising inequality and poverty in any significant way. At the same time …, Social Security contributed to surprisingly large increases in inequality due to the rise in pensions to the well …
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2000s. Since the recession, there was a rise in inequality and poverty levels and aggregate welfare decreased. While … transfers and unemployment compensation failed to address rising inequality and poverty in any significant way. At the same time …, Social Security contributed to surprisingly large increases in inequality due to the rise in pensions to the well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012308580
In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government …-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve … along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form with reduced social concern amplifying primal increases in inequality due to …
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estimate the welfare consequences of these food price increases, and their distribution across households. Because Brazil is a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643263