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Dieser Bericht beleuchtet, wie das Personenfreizügigkeitsabkommen (FZA) der Schweiz mit den EU/EFTA-Staaten das … Einkommenswachstum in der Schweiz in den letzten Jahren beeinflusst hat. Der Bericht verfolgt das Ziel, Klarheit in die in der … Bruttoinlandprodukts (BIP) pro Kopf der Bevölkerung in der Schweiz gehabt hat. Aus den Analysen lässt sich vor allem ein genereller Schluss …
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This paper assesses the impact on household incomes of the COVID-19 pandemic and governments’ policy responses in April 2020 in four large and severely hit European countries: Belgium, Italy, Spain and the UK. We provide comparative evidence on the level of relative and absolute welfare...
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Over the last few years concern for income inequality in European countries has increased remarkably. In this context, taxation is an important redistributive instrument and we investigate the redistributive role of direct taxes. We focus on the EU-15 countries and the evolution over the period...
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The systems of direct taxes and cash benefits in the Member States of the European Union vary considerably in size and structure. We explore their direct impacts on cross-sectional income inequality (termed "redistributive effect" for the purpose of this paper) using EUROMOD, a tax-benefit...
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rising employment on relative income poverty. This method has serious limitations. We propose a more sophisticated simulation …
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Western countries' income tax systems exempt the return from investing in owner-occupied housing. Returns from other investments are instead taxed, thus distorting households’ portfolio choices, although it is argued that housing property taxation might act as a counterbalance. Based on data...
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