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Distribuição de renda nos anos 2010: Uma década perdida para desigualdade e pobreza

Barbosa, Rogério J.; Soares, Sergei - 2020

2000s. Since the recession, there was a rise in inequality and poverty levels and aggregate welfare decreased. While … 2018 to document how the mid-decade economic recession reversed the trend of pro-poor growth that dated back to the early … behind this reversal of fortune. We find that the effects of the recession on the labor market explain a lot of the recent …

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Measuring welfare, inequality and poverty with ordinal variables

Silber, Jacques; Yalonetzky, Gaston - 2021

addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

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Who got what, then and now? A fifty year overview from the Global Consumption and Income Project

Jayadev, Arjun; Lahoti, Rahul; Reddy, Sanjay G. - 2015

implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the …

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Happiness economics

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 4 (2013) 1, pp. 35-60

There is enough evidence to be confident that individuals are able and willing to provide a meaningful answer when asked to value on a finite scale their satisfaction with their own lives, a question that psychologists have long and often posed to respondents of large questionnaires. Without...

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Income inequality and social preferences for redistribution and compensation differentials

Kerr, William R. - 2013

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...

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A tax benefit model for policy evaluation in Luxembourg : LuxTaxBen

Islam, Nizamul; Flood, Lennart - 2015

conditional on labour supply while income tax rules and the various welfare benefit-levels are complicated functions of earned and …We develop a behavioural micro simulation model (LuxTaxBen) that contains very precise information on income tax rules …, as well as eligibility-rules for a number of welfare programs, such as social assistance, housing allowance etc. The …

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A fresh look at an old question : is pro-poor targeting of cash transfers more effective than universal systems at reducing inequality and poverty?

McKnight, Abigail - 2015

direct tax systems. …

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Happiness economics

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 4 (2013) 1, pp. 35-60

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Distribuição de renda nos anos 2010: uma década perdida para desigualdade e pobreza

Barbosa, Rogério J.; Souza, Pedro H. G. Ferreira de; … - 2020

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O valor de mercado da educação pública

Soares, Sergei - 2019

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 are: i) The first method is cost of provision, according...

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