Bargain, Olivier; Callan, Tim(University College Dublin. School of EconomicsUniversity College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2007-08)
To assess the impact of tax-benefit policy changes on income distribution over time, we suggest a methodology based on counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposing changes in inequality/poverty indices into three ...
Bargain, Olivier(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-10)
For policy makers and analysts, it is important to isolate the redistributive impact of tax-benefit policy changes from changes in the environment in which policies
operate. When actual reforms are motivated by work ...
Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources
at the household level. While it is possible to speculate about which groups are likely
to be hardest-hit, detailed distributional studies ...
Research appears to demonstrate that economic variables are only marginally predictive of levels of social satisfaction. It was hypothesised that a greater association might be found between satisfaction and equality of ...
We study how fathers’ and mothers’ income satisfaction correlate with the income
satisfaction of their sons and daughters, as well as with other economic and sociodemographic variables. We estimate these correlations using ...