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reconstruction might have on other social objectives that were setting the international agenda before the Covid-19 pandemic. We …
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tax system in the UK, US and elsewhere, with proportionately much greater impact on the poor than on the rich, and welfare … Covid-19 pandemic. We show how a progressive wealth tax combined with a uniform, linear tax on all incomes and a modest … resilient, and potentially devastating economic consequences of the pandemic could be mitigated by an emergency basic income and …
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This paper examines how changes in tax policy, welfare programs, public health insurance, and economic conditions … during the 1990s affected welfare use and employment among single mothers. Drawing on panel data from the Survey of Income … and Program Participation, I give new estimates of the effects of specific policy changes and use those estimates to …
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Families with dependent children are among the social groups most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper … supplemented by a summary of the available opinions of experts and other policy stakeholders. Based on this, the paper discusses … high number of measures were identified. This suggests that the government strived for proactive policy to address families …
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inclusive growth. This reluctance begs a key question: Why forego tax policy reforms that hold the obvious promise of win … major tax instruments on the one hand, and, on the other, country-specific tax policy assessments reported in several dozen … that support sustainable and inclusive economic growth. Tax policies play a crucial role in this endeavour. Both tax theory …
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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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's wages and circumscribes women's life choices and economic power.This article considers what tax policy might contribute to a … feminist legal agenda that aims to redress the gendered division of labor. It argues that tax policy can make an important … goals into concrete policy prescriptions …
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In this paper, we summarize our previous research into the distributive effects of the tax and social systems in the … Czech Republic. We construct a measure of the total tax burden for ten income deciles and we measure it against social … benefits distribution. Our analysis shows that the poorest decile gains significantly from the combined tax and social systems …
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, especially the role of the tax-and-transfer system, and suggests public policies to promote inclusive growth. To a significant … that promote inclusive growth could also help reduce the market distortions resulting from the current tax …-and-transfer system. In particular, phasing out personal and corporate tax expenditures that disproportionately benefit high earners would …
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