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Explaining the Shadow Economy in Europe : Size, Causes and Policy Options
Kelmanson, Ben - 2020
This paper examines the drivers, and reestimates the size of shadow economies in Europe, with a focus on the emerging economies, and recommends policies to increase formality. The size of shadow economies declined across Europe in recent years but remains significant, especially in Eastern...
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Effectiveness and Equity in Social Spending - The Case of Spain
Vtyurina, Svetlana - 2020
recent targeted spending reviews. The results suggest that social protection spending should aim to improve redistribution …
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Fiscal Redistribution and Social Welfare
Coady, David P. - 2019
discussion of fiscal redistribution within the standard social welfareframework, which lends itself to a transparent and … practical evaluation of the extent anddeterminants of fiscal redistribution. Differences in fiscal redistribution are decomposed … factorsexplaining differences in their fiscal redistribution and to discuss patterns in fiscalredistribution highlighted in the …
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Income Inequality and Government Transfers in Mexico
Lambert, Frederic - 2019
We analyze microdata from Mexico's survey on household income and expenditures (ENIGH) to study the evolution of income inequality in Mexico over 2004-16, identify its sources, and investigate how it was affected by government social policy. We find evidence of only a small decline in inequality...
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Reallocating Public Spending to Reduce Income Inequality : Can it Work?
Doumbia, Djeneba - 2019
Can a government reduce income inequality by changing the composition of public spending while keeping the total level of expenditure fixed? Using newly assembled data on spending composition for 83 countries across all income groups, this paper shows that reallocating spending toward social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860996
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Designing Fiscal Redistribution : The Role of Universal and Targeted Transfers
Coady, David - 2020
income redistribution objectives. While the benefits of targeting areclear, i.e., a larger poverty impact for a given … therefore depend on how countries decide to trade-off these costs andbenefits as well as on the potential for redistribution …
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How Does Taxation Affect Hours Worked in EU New Member States?
Velasquez, Agustin - 2019
Hours worked vary widely across countries and over time. In this paper, we investigate the role played by taxation in …
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Self-Employment and Support for the Dutch Pension Reform
Karpowicz, Izabela - 2019
The Netherlands' pension system is characterized by high participation rates, adequate retirement income, strong capitalization and sustainability. Pressure points are arising, however, due to population aging and untransparent intergenerational transfers inherent in the system. Moreover, the...
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The Impact of Rapid Aging and Pension Reform on Savings and the Labor Supply
He, Hui - 2019
We study, both empirically and quantitatively, the role of savings and the labor supply inself-insurance channels over the life cycle when one faces not only idiosyncratic income risks, but also changes in longevity risk and pension benefits. We pick China as a case study since China has...
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The Russian State's Size and its Footprint : Have They Increased?
Di Bella, C. Gabriel - 2019
The short answer: The size of the Russian State has not increased much in the last few years, but its economic footprint remains significant. Concretely, the state's size increased from about 32 percent of GDP in 2012 to 33 percent in 2016, not far from the EBRD's estimate of 35 percent for...
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