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Pension and medicost reform - averting the demoghaphic/fiscal demise
Kotlikoff, Laurence - In: CESifo Forum 6 (2005) 4, pp. 37-41
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004998739
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Der Einkommenssteuertarif verteilt stärker um als je zuvor: Eine Simulationsanalyse
Brügelmann, Ralph; Schaefer, Thilo - Finanzwissenschaftlichen Forschungsinstitut, … - 2012
Im Vorfeld der Bundestagswahl 2013 findet in Deutschland eine intensive Debatte über die Umverteilungswirkung der Einkommensteuer statt. Insbesondere mit der Senkung des Spitzensteuersatzes auf zwischenzeitlich 42 und nun 45 Prozent wird eine überproportionale Bevorzugung hoher Einkommen...
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Fiscal policy and income redistribution in Latin America: Challenging the conventional wisdom
Lustig, Nora - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
argue that conventional wisdom may be wrong. First, the extent and effectiveness of income redistribution and poverty … hand, and the extent and effectiveness of redistribution, on the other: government size is similar for Argentina and … Bolivia but they are on opposite sides in terms of the extent of redistribution. Fourth, due to indirect taxes households are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366275
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The inequality trap A comparative analysis of social spending between 1880 and 1933
Espuelas, Sergio - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2011
Using two alternative indicators of redistribution -social transfers and social spending- over the time-period 1880 … inequality itself was an obstacle to redistribution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366332
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Social Policies for a Recovery
Immervoll, Herwig; Llena-Nozal, Ana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The fallout from the global economic downturn of 2008-09 is a continuing source of stress on families and a constraint on government policies. How can social policies contribute to a quick and equitable recovery from the crisis and how can they best respond to the difficulties that households...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325413
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Fiscal Policy and Income Redistribution in Latin America: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom
Lustig, Nora; Pessino, Carola; Molina, George Gray; … - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2011
argue that conventional wisdom may be wrong. First, the extent and effectiveness of income redistribution and poverty … hand, and the extent and effectiveness of redistribution, on the other: government size is similar for Argentina and … Bolivia but they are on opposite sides in terms of the extent of redistribution.Fourth, due to indirect taxes households are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009358893
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The Politics of Inequality and Redistribution in Latin America.s Post-Adjustment Era
Roberts, Kenneth M. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012
Declining social and economic inequalities since the late 1990s coincided with several basic shifts in Latin America.s political landscape, including an electoral turn to the left and a revival of social mobilization from below. These shifts helped to .repoliticize. inequality and return...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653090
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Your Place or Mine? Beliefs About Inequality and Redress Preferences in South Africa
Roberts, Benjamin - In: Social Indicators Research 118 (2014) 3, pp. 1167-1190
This article examines the nature of and change in beliefs about inequality and preferences for redistribution in South … earnings are tracked, together with support for government redistribution and for specific redress policies. Overall, the … preference for greater distributive fairness. Broad support is also reported in relation to state-led redistribution, though a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010949869
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Towards a Social Understanding of Productivity: A Review Article
Madrick, Jeff - In: International Productivity Monitor 6 (2003) Spring, pp. 72-74
Productivity is not just an important concept for economists, but for other social scientists as well. This article by Jeff Matrick, Editor of Challenge and economics columnist for the New York Times, is a review of a the recently published edited volume Towards a Social Understanding of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481848
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Social European Model between Descriptive and Contrafactual
Moraru, Liviu-Catalin; Staicu, Gabriel - In: Theoretical and Applied Economics 3(498) (2006) 3(498), pp. 97-104
, and not by redistribution and uniformization. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005581634