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Housing Decisions, Family Types and Gender. A look across LIS countries

Rossi, Mariacristina; Sierminska, Eva - 2015

value of one's own home (home equity) is the largest financial reserve in a household's wealth portfolio, it is important to …

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Who did safety nets catch during the Great Recession and how? A comparison of eleven OECD countries

Baird, Katherine - 2014

occurred along the income distribution, and reversed increases in inequality. A notable shortcoming across many countries was …

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Pension income inequality: A cohort study in six European countries

Neugschwender, Jörg - 2014

This paper is an empirical overview of inequalities of pension outcomes in six European countries, which are shaped by a variety of institutional pensions schemes. The study contrasts pension system regulation in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the United Kingdom; and analyses their...

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Inflation and the rich after the global financial crisis

Jovanovic, Branimir - 2014

episodes in order to prevent rising income inequality. …

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The Global Consumption and Income Project (GCIP): An introduction and preliminary findings

Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay G. - 2014

consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …

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Relative income distribution in six European countries: Market and disposable income

Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2015

The relationship between income inequality and polarization is an empirical fact: a change in equality might occur … together with a change in polarization. At the same time, polarization might emerge while inequality remains constant. The …

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A fresh look at an old question: Is pro-poor targeting of cash transfers more effective than universal systems at reducing inequality and poverty?

McKnight, Abigail - 2015

This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty … and inequality. The strength of the relationship varies between countries and in some cases between the all age and the …

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Pension institutions and income inequality across European societies: Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom

Neugschwender, Jörg - 2015

different regulatory approaches may, in the end, have quite diverse implications on income inequality among the elderly. A …

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Heterogeneous labor earning shock process in finite horizon

Rahman, Md. Arifur - 2017

This paper investigates the importance of heterogeneity in the labor earning shock processes. We analyze the earning shock process for both male and female workers in several countries. We argue that unlike time series analysis, in a life cycle model the forecasting horizon is finite and in...

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Income inequality and fiscal redistribution in 47 LIS-countries, 1967-2014

Caminada, Koen; Wang, Jinxian; Goudswaard, Kees Pieter; … - 2017

household primary income inequality and disposable income inequality, redistribution from transfers and income taxes, and the …. LIS data allow us to decompose the trajectory of the Gini coefficient from primary to disposable income inequality in … LIS Budget Incidence Fiscal Redistribution Dataset on Income Inequality (LLBIFR Dataset on Income Inequality 2017) allows …

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