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The end of cheap talk about poverty reduction : the cost of closing the poverty gap while maintaining work incentives

Collado, Diego; Cantillon, Béa; Van den Bosch, Karel; … - 2017

How can poverty reduction be improved and at what cost? Available evidence suggests that social investment strategies and employment policies are important but not sufficient. In order to reduce the number of people below the relative at-risk-of-poverty threshold of the EU, countries must...

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Baseline results from the EU28 EUROMOD ; 2011-2016

Makovec, Mattia; Tammik, Miko - 2017

This paper presents baseline results from the latest version of EUROMOD (version G4.0+), the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the EU. First, we briefly report the process of updating EUROMOD. We then present indicators for income inequality and risk of poverty using EUROMOD and discuss the...

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Affording utopia : the economic viability of "a capitalist road to communism"

Major, Aaron - In: Basic income studies : BIS ; an international journal … 11 (2016) 2, pp. 75-95

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Regime type, inequality, and redistributive transfers in developing countries

Dodlova, Marina; Giolbas, Anna - 2017

The debate on whether democracy and inequality increase the level of redistribution is ongoing. We construct a model … that predicts higher probability of redistribution in democracies than autocracies through social transfers. Higher … inequality leads to more redistribution in democracies but not necessarily in autocracies. Using the new data on Non …

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Mongolia : distributional impact of taxes and transfers

Freije, Samuel; Yang, Judy S. - 2018

(the child money program and the mortgage subsidy) do little redistribution-the latter is actually regressive-but represent …

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Baseline results from the EU28 EUROMOD ; 2015-2018

Tammik, Miko - 2019

This paper presents baseline results from the latest version of EUROMOD (version I1.0+), the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the EU. First, we briefly report the process of updating EUROMOD. We then present indicators for income inequality and risk of poverty using EUROMOD and discuss the...

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Distributional and welfare effects of replacing monetary benefits with iniversal basic income in Spain

Badenes Plá, Nuria; Gambau-Suelves, Borja; Navas … - 2019

This papers quantifies the redistributive effects on progressivity, poverty and welfare, that would occur if the monetary benefits currently in place in the Spanish system were to be replaced by a neutral alternative in terms of spending, granting a universal basic income (UBI) to everyone. We...

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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income

Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria - 2019

life-cycle model, we find that redistribution by taxes and transfers off sets 54% of the inequality in lifetime earnings …

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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income

Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria - 2017

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Baseline results from the EU28 EUROMOD ; 2014-2017

Tammik, Miko - 2018

This paper presents baseline results from the latest version of EUROMOD (version H1.0+), the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the EU. First, we briefly report the process of updating EUROMOD. We then present indicators for income inequality and risk of poverty using EUROMOD and discuss the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864876