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offset furlough-induced income reductions. This creates wealth inequality but lowers the probability a furloughed worker …
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The highly dynamic nature of the COVID-19 crisis poses an unprecedented challenge to policy makers around the world to take appropriate income-stabilizing countermeasures. To properly design such policy measures, it is important to quantify their effects in real-time. However, data on the...
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poverty and inequality in India during the pandemic. We have three main findings. First, India has made significant progress … have temporarily increased poverty and inequality. Second, education and employment status seem to be the main factors … in reducing poverty in recent decades, but the economic downturn associated with the COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to …
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Bruttoarbeitseinkommens über die gesamte Einkommensverteilung hinweg niederschlägt. Das Steuer-Transfer-System und diskretionäre …
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of recipients. I then discuss empirical work on the effects of the EITC on poverty and income distribution, and its … current EITC. -- Welfare reform ; Earned income tax credit ; EITC ; Earnings subsidies ; Tax credits ; Poverty …
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pandemic reduced household income, increased the poverty rate, and worsened wage equality. It increased the proportion of below …
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proportional losses are largest for higher-income families. However, the overall impact of the crisis on income inequality is small …. Earnings subsidies (Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme) will protect household finances and provide the main insurance mechanism …
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modeled. We find that discretionary fiscal policy measures in Austria are key to counteracting the inequality- and poverty …
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overall impact of the crisis on income inequality is small. Earnings subsidies (the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme) will …-related increases to state benefits, as well as the automatic stabilisers in the tax and benefit system, will play an important role in …
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modeled. We find that discretionary fiscal policy measures in Austria are key to counteracting the inequality- and poverty …
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