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In empirical analysis, the Kakwani index is the most frequently used indicator for comparing progressivity across countries and over time. The Kakwani is often assumed to measure to what extent a policy design is targeted to the poor. It has, however, a major drawback: it is not defined for net...
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these tax, transfer and minimum wage reforms on income inequality and poverty based on a microsimulation approach using …Atkinson's book Inequality: What Can Be Done? (Harvard University Press, 2015) sets out a range of concrete proposals … aimed at reducing income inequality, which cover a very broad span but include major changes to the income tax and social …
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other benefits, including greatly reduced administrative complexity and cost. Using microsimulation analysis in a …
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and Portugal. Using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD, the paper first assesses the distributional impact of …
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individual working-biographies. This discussion paper portrays the instrument of this projection, a microsimulation model for the … year 1996 in Germany (AVID-PRO). For the purpose of this microsimulation model we first raised longitudinal section and … for the continuation of suitable models. In the centre of the microsimulation based projection we have three sub …
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representativeness from the point of view of microsimulation analysis. We find important discrepancies between the data weighted with … the point of view of the accuracy of microsimulation results and we show that using a combination of demographic … calibration targets with several economic status variables or tax identifiers from the microsimulation model substantially …
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this paper, we use a new Australian microsimulation model, ATM, built on the EUROMOD platform to examine the extent to …
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-distribution method. Poverty and inequality decline overall, since households with children and low income gain, while those who used to …
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–2013 based on a combination of measures estimated using the EUROMOD tax-benefit microsimulation model. The analysis revealed high …
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microsimulation model that reproduces the system of taxes and transfers in 2002 Quebec, we measure the EMTRs that result from the …
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