Zasova, Anna; Krūmiņa, Marija; Rastrigina, Olga - In: Baltic Journal of Economics 12 (2012) 2, pp. 5-16
Latvia has one of the highest levels of income inequality and poverty in the EU. In this article, we argue that distributional considerations, especially assistance for those really in need, have had a low priority in designing tax and benefit policy in Latvia. We estimate the distributional...