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The Distributional Impact of Recurrent Immovable Property Taxation in Greece

Andriopoulou, Eirini; Kanavitsa, Eleni; Leventi, Chrysa; … - 2020

During the last decade, Greece faced one of the most severe debt crises among developed countries, leading to Economic Adjustment Programs in order to avoid a disorderly default. Public expenditure was cut, tax rates were increased and new taxes were introduced aiming at restoring public...

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What accounts for the rising share of women in the top 1%?

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, … - 2020

The share of women in the top 1% of the UK’s income distribution has been growing over the last two decades (as in several other countries). Our first contribution is to account for this secular change using regressions of the probability of being in the top 1%, fitted separately for men and...

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The evolution of tax implicit value judgements, redistribution and income inequality in the UK: 1968 to 2015

van de Ven, Justin; Hérault, Nicolas - 2019

redistribution; one that departs from the prevailing view that UK inequality stopped rising from the early 1990s. …

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Income Inequality and the Size of Government: A Causal Analysis

Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin - 2019

Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from the problem of endogeneity of government size with respect to the distribution of income. Studying 30 European countries over the period 2004-2015, we apply instrumental variable...

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Does redistribution hurt growth? An Empirical Assessment of the Redistribution-Growth Relationship in the European Union

Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; Köppl-Turyna, Monika - 2024

This paper analyzes the relationship between economic growth, inequality and redistribution. In a cross-country setting … the short run. To estimate the impact of redistribution to low-income earners, we introduce a new measure, the so …-called net benefit share (NBS). Contrary to other findings, we show that this (targeted) redistribution to lowincome earners (Q1 …

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Inequality and poverty in Greece: Changes in times of crisis

Andriopoulou, Eirini; Karakitsios, Alexandros; … - 2017

The Greek crisis was the deepest and longest ever recorded in an OECD country in the postwar period. Output declined by over a quarter and disposable income by more than 40%, while the unemployment rate exceeded 27%. The paper explores the effects of the crisis on the level and the structure of...

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Europe's migration experience and its effects on economic inequality

Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin; Ulceluse, Magdalena M. - 2021

This chapter provides the historical context for the past half-century in Europe focusing specifically on the link between migration and economic development and inequality. The literature review suggests that there are several channels through which migration affects economic inequality between...

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Measuring welfare, inequality and poverty with ordinal variables

Silber, Jacques; Yalonetzky, Gaston - 2021

The key challenge in making distributional comparisons with ordinal data is the lack of commensurability of the distances between the ordered categories. This chapter provides a critical review of the most recent theoretical developments addressing this challenge and providing methods for...

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Redistributive effect and the progressivity of taxes and benefits: evidence for the UK, 1977-2018

Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2021

We apply the Kakwani approach to decomposing redistributive effect into average rate, progressivity, and reranking components using yearly UK data covering 1977-2018. We examine cash and in-kind benefits, and direct and indirect taxes. In addition, we highlight an empirical implementation issue...

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Rapid Economic Growth but Rising Poverty Segregation: Will Vietnam Meet the SDGs for Equitable Development?

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Dhongde, Shatakshee; Do, Minh; … - 2023

Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few decades. Yet, recent evidence indicates that the country's economic growth has not been uniform. Compiling and analyzing new extensive province-level data from the Vietnam...

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