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Neoliberal redistributive policy : the U.S. net social wage in the 21st century

Moos, Katherine A. - 2017

In this paper, I examine the trends of fiscal transfers between the state and workers during 1959 - 2012 to understand the net impact of redistributive policy in the United States. This paper presents original net social wage data from and analysis based on the replication and extension of...

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Essays in social economics

Greenwood, Elizabeth Longenecker - 2012

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The efficiency of race- and gender-targeted income transfers

Cushing, Matthew Jonathan; McGarvey, Mary G. - In: Public finance review : PFR 31 (2003) 5, pp. 455-486

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Preferences for redistribution among emigrants from a welfare state

Kauppinen, Ilpo; Poutvaara, Panu - 2012

also in Denmark, but the gender difference is much smaller. We study to what extent differences in attitudes towards …This paper studies attitudes towards income redistribution in the country of origin among those who stay in a welfare … state, and those who emigrate. We find a striking gender difference among Danish emigrants. Majority of men opposes …

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Putting US Fiscal Policy on a Sustainable Path

Dynan, Karen E.; Elmendorf, Douglas W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Even allowing for substantial uncertainty regarding projections, current US fiscal policies are almost certainly unsustainable. Therefore, policymakers must decide when and in what ways to change policies. Changing policies sooner rather than later would put debt on a lower trajectory and...

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The Policy Mix in the US and EMU : Evidence from a SVAR Analysis

Afonso, António - 2018

We use a SVAR approach to the effects of fiscal and monetary policies, as well as their interactions (policy mix) for the US and the Euro Area (EMU). Overall, our results show that these two cases are different from each other. First, while in the case of the US there is evidence of Keynesian...

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The U.S. Public Debt Crisis : A Catalyst for Fiscal Reform and Economic Growth

Dodwell, William J. - 2011

The financial crisis and the ensuing Great Recession created unprecedented federal budget deficits in recent years. In fact, these events, combined with subsequent slow growth and two continuing unfunded wars, have resulted in a national debt that is out of control by all meaningful measures....

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Fiscal Policy in the United States : Automatic Stabilizers, Discretionary Fiscal Policy Actions, and the Economy

Lutz, Byron F. - 2010

We examine the effects of the economy on the government budget as well as the effects of the budget on the economy. First, we provide measures of the effects of automatic stabilizers on budget outcomes at the federal and state and local levels. For the federal government, the deficit increases...

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Debt and the effects of fiscal policy

Favero, Carlo A. (contributor); … - 2007

A fiscal shock due to a shift in taxes or in government spending will, at some point in time, constrain the future path of taxes and spending, since the government’s intertemporal budget constraint will eventually have to be met. This simple fact is surprisingly overlooked in analyses of the...

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What are the effects of fiscal policy shocks?

Mountford, Andrew (contributor); Uhlig, Harald (contributor) - 2005

We propose and apply a new approach for analyzing the effects of fiscal policy using vector autoregressions. Unlike most of the previous literature this approach does not require that the contemporaneous reaction of some variables to fiscal policy shocks be set to zero or need additional...

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