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Income redistribution through taxes and transfers across OECD countries

Causa, Orsetta; Hermansen, Mikkel Nørlem - 2017

by personal income taxes, employees’ social security contributions and cash transfers, based on household-level micro … a decline in cash transfer redistribution while personal income taxes played a less important and more heterogeneous …

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Structural reforms to boost growth and living standards in Argentina

González Pandiella, Alberto - 2018

markets, taxes, infrastructure, skills, innovation, trade policy, rule of law and financial markets. Beyond changing the rules …

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Reducing inequality and poverty in Portugal

Arnold, Jens Matthias; Rodrigues, Carlos Farinha - 2015

Portugal has one of the most unequal income distributions in Europe and poverty levels are high. The economic crisis has halted a long-term gradual decline in both inequality and poverty and the number of poor households is rising, with children and youths being particularly affected....

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Income redistribution via taxes and transfers across OECD countries

Joumard, Isabelle; Pisu, Mauro; Bloch, Debbie - 2012

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Enhancing competition and the business environment in Hungary

Pina, Álvaro Manuel - 2014

Over the past decade, the growth potential of the Hungarian economy has declined substantially. Trend productivity has ceased to increase, and investment has fallen to historically low levels. To an important extent, the explanation lies in a business environment characterised by high...

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Tackling labour mismatches and promoting mobility in Hungary

Sorbe, Stéphane - 2014

Significant labour market mismatches and insufficient mobility penalise employment and productivity. Mismatches have above all a skills dimension, with an excess of low-skilled workers and a possible lack of skilled workers in certain domains. Reducing the high tax wedge on low salaries and...

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Effects of tax-benefit policies on the income distribution and work incentives in Estonia

Paulus, Alari; Klein, Caroline - 2019

The paper studies the impact of tax-benefit policies on the distribution of household incomes and work incentives in Estonia. It makes use of microsimulation modelling approach and applies the EU tax-benefit model EUROMOD to quantify the first-order effects of policy changes in 2016-2018 and of...

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Making Colombia's tax policy more efficient, fair and green

Daude, Christian; Perret, Sarah; Brys, Bert - 2015

is pervasive. Lower oil revenues and the expiration of a number of taxes are putting strains on the budget at a time when … social and development spending needs are rising. Heavy reliance on corporate income taxes reduces investment. At the same … time, the redistributive impact of taxation is reduced because most of income and wealth taxes are paid by firms rather …

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Fiscal devaluation : can it help to boost competitiveness?

Koske, Isabell - 2013

The recent crisis has revealed large differences in external competitiveness between euro area member countries. Since nominal exchange rate devaluation is not an option for members of a currency area, governments in troubled member countries have been considering so-called fiscal devaluation,...

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Dividing the pie in Brazil : income distribution, social policies and the new middle class

Arnold, Jens Matthias; Jalles, João Tovar - 2014

Brazil has made remarkable progress in reducing poverty and inequality. This reduction is explained by strong growth but also by effective social policies. Besides growth, public services and cash transfers have played the biggest role, the latter notably through the successful “Bolsa...

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