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A General Microsimulation Model for the EU VAT with a specific Application to Germany

Siemers, Lars-H. R. - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2014

The sales taxes in the EU - and in several other countries - are practiced as value- added tax of the consumption type with invoice method. Literature on microsimulation models (MSM) for this type of VAT is rare, though the importance of VAT has continuously increased. We discuss the issues of...

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Deprivation and the Dimnensionality of Welfare: A Variable-Selection Cluster-Analysis Approach

Caruso, Germán; Sosa-Escudero, Walter; Svarc, Marcela - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2011

In this paper we tackle the problems of dimensionality of welfare and that of identifying the multidimensionally poor by first finding the poor using the original space of attributes, and then reducing the welfare space. The starting point is the notion that the ‘poor’ constitutes a group of...

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Recent Trends in Inequality and Poverty in Developing Countries

Alvaredo, Facundo; Gasparini, Leonardo - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2013

This chapter reviews the empirical evidence on the levels and trends in income/consumption inequality and poverty in … developing countries. It includes a discussion of data sources and measurement issues, evidence on the levels of inequality and … discussion of their determinants. There has been tremendous progress in the measurement of inequality and poverty in the …

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Igualdad de oportunidades en ingresos: el caso de Argentina

Serio, Monserrat - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2011

En este trabajo utilizamos los más recientes métodos de regresión no condicionada por cuantiles (RNCQ) para estudiar los efectos distributivos de la educación en Argentina. Los métodos estándar se centran, por lo general, en efectos promedio o estudian los efectos distributivos ya sea...

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Las Transferencias Públicas y su impacto distributivo: La Experiencia de los Países del Cono Sur en la década de 2000

Alejo, Javier; Bérgolo, Marcelo; Carbajal, Fedora - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2013

In Latin America the inequality of income has declined in the 2000s. This study applies a variant of the noparametric …, focusing on the importance of public transfers, on changes in inequality of the Southern Cone countries in the 2000s: Argentina … the inequality changes in the 2000s in those countries, which was mainly explained by the equalizing effect of the public …

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Poverty Goals

Campo, Juan Carlos Chavez-Martin del - In: EconoQuantum, Revista de Economia y Negocios 4 (2008) 2, pp. 27-34

Este articulo propone una metodologia para estimar el tiempo y la tasa de crecimiento necesarios para alcanzar un objetivo de pobreza, dada una serie de distribuciones del ingreso y escenarios de crecimiento contrafactuales. La metodologia se puede aplicar a la mayoria de las medidas de pobreza...

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Infinite horizon allocation with consumption-dependent utility

Peled, Dan; Rachmilevitch, Shiran - Department of Economics, University of Haifa - 2012

We consider an economy in which there is an infinite stream of pies, each of size one, one in every period. For each agent, the per-period utility function, which is defined on that period's consumption, is determined by the previous period's consumption. We describe specifications of this model...

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Income inequality in the European Union: evidence from a panel analysis

Malerba, Giuseppina; Spreafico, Marta - Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche, … - 2013

Understanding the reasons underlying income inequality has generated considerable interest in the last years and … forces shaping the evolution of income inequality are difficult to find. Moreover, little attention has been given to the … increasing inequality merely among advanced economies. For these reasons, we develop a theoretical framework to provide a …

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Mapping and measuring the distribution of household wealth: A cross-country analysis

Cowell, Frank A; Karagiannaki, Eleni; McKnight, Abigail - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2012

wealth households but high relative measures of wealth inequality. Italian households hold very little debt and are much more … of wealth inequality such as the Gini coefficient even though absolute gaps between high and low wealth households have …

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Wealth accumulation in Great Britain 1995-2005: The role of house prices and the life cycle

Bastagli, Francesca; Hills, John - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2012

fastest for households in the middle of the distribution and inequality measured by the Gini coefficient decreased. This … inequality is almost entirely accounted for by changes in house prices. The paper also finds that, controlling for factors such …

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