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This paper presents baseline results from the latest public version (I4.0+) of EUROMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation … tax rates (METR), an indicator which captures the effect of tax-benefit systems on work incentives at the intensive margin …
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Minimum Income (MI) schemes are essential to alleviate poverty and guarantee a last-resort safety net to households with insufficient resources. Assessing the effectiveness of MI schemes in poverty reduction is challenging. Studies based on survey microdata are usually subject to a bias because...
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A number of studies documents that minimum wage policies have the potential to reduce income inequality. The recently adopted EU Commission's proposal for a Directive on adequate minimum wages was supported by a detailed analysis of the social impacts of hypothetical minimum wage levels in...
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compensate households in 2022. The study uses the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the European Union (EUROMOD) with … confirms that purchasing power and welfare were more severely affected by the 2022 inflation surge in lower-income households … than in higher-income households. Fiscal measures compensated households for about a third of their welfare loss, though …
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The objective of this paper is to verify the effect of the location of health facilities on amenable and child mortality in the city of Salvador in Brazil. Based on the theory of local public goods, we consider that the provision of public health facilities affects the local health condition,...
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This study has made a significant contribution to the literature on energy inequality by utilizing an economic-environmental framework to investigate this phenomenon across different income groups of countries worldwide. The study employed the Theil index to calculate intra-regional and...
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The unprecedented growth in FDI in the last decades has caused drastic changes in the labour markets of the host countries. The major part of FDI takes place in low tech industries, where the wages and skills are low, or in high tech, where they offer a wage premium for the highly skilled...
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