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Partisan Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the U.S., 1979-2007

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to disentangle the direct policy effect from the effect of changing market incomes. Over the whole period 1979-2007 the cumulative tax policy effect aggravated income inequality...

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Tax policy and income inequality in the US, 1979-2007

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method allowing us to disentangle the policy effect from changing market incomes. Over the period 1979-2007, the cumulative policy effect aggravated inequality by increasing the income share of the top...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957610

Using repeated cross-sections to explore movements into and out of poverty

Dang, Hai-Anh; Lanjouw, Peter; Luoto, Jill; McKenzie, David - In: Journal of Development Economics 107 (2014) C, pp. 112-128

Movements in and out of poverty are of core interest to both policymakers and economists. Yet the panel data needed to … analyze such movements are rare. In this paper we build on the methodology used to construct poverty maps to show how repeated … cross-sections of household survey data can allow inferences to be made about movements in and out of poverty. We illustrate …

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An Unemployment Insurance Scheme for the Euro Area

Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Neumann, Dirk; Peichl, … - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

The Great Recession and the resulting European debt crisis revived a debate about deeper fiscal integration in the Eurozone. We discuss different alternatives how an unemployment insurance system for the euro area could be designed and run counterfactual simulations based on micro data to...

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An unemployment insurance scheme for the euro area? A comparison of different alternatives using micro data

Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Neumann, Dirk; Peichl, … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

We analyze different alternatives how a common unemployment insurance system for the euro area (EA) could be designed and assess their effectiveness to act as an insurance device in the presence of asymmetric macroeconomic shocks. Running counterfactual simulations based on micro data for the...

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Fiscal integration in the eurozone: Economic effects of two key scenarios

Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Neumann, Dirk; Peichl, … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

The 2008-09 crisis has shown that some euro area member countries were unable to sufficiently stabilize their economies which has given rise to a debate about deeper fiscal integration in Europe. In this paper, we analyze the redistributive and stabilizing effects of two scenarios of fiscal...

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An Unemployment Insurance Scheme for the Euro Area? A Comparison of Different Alternatives using Micro Data

Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Neumann, Dirk; Peichl, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959653