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exclusion for employer provided health insurance. While homeownership has long been viewed as a social good, the QRI deduction … subprime mortgages and spread around the economy by mortgage backed securities. Assuming that homeownership provides useful … societal benefits, this chapter will explore how the tax system could create incentives for homeownership while avoiding the …
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between the countries of the Euro area. We find a strong negative correlation between wealth inequality and homeownership … by homeownership status shows that the negative relationship is mostly driven by large between-group inequality across …-country inequality differences. We confirm the major role for homeownership rates in accounting for the wealth inequality differences …
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285835
The paper examines the degree of overlap between people who experience chronic material deprivation and those who face long term income poverty (longitudinal poverty) in 22 EU countries for the period 2005-2008, using the longitudinal information of the EU-SILC. In order to approximate chronic...
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Richer people are happier than poorer people, but when a country becomes richer over time, its people do not become happier. This seemingly contradictory pair of findings of Richard Easterlin has be-come famous as the Easterlin Paradox. However, it was met with counterevidence. To shed more...
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The paper examines the degree of overlap between people who experience chronic material deprivation and those who face long term income poverty (longitudinal poverty) in 22 EU countries for the period 2005-2008, using the longitudinal information of the EU-SILC. In order to approximate chronic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997452
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the inclusiveness of economic growth in selected South East Asian (SEA) and Central and Eastern European (CEE) economies over the last two decades. The discussion is based on concepts of inclusive and pro-poor growth. The author describes the characteristics...
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A large amount of policy support is spent to foster the development of rural areas in Europe. However, empirical … evidence on the well-being differential between rural and urban areas in Europe is scant and incomplete. The present study …
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opportunities and outcomes – including their health and labour market outcomes – long after they reach adulthood. Drawing on Europe …
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