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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1999-06)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1996-06)This paper analyses inequality in Ireland via a decomposition of the Gini coefficient by source of income. Using data from the Irish Household Budget Survey of 1987, seventeen components of disposable income are identified ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1999-05)Most analyses of wage discrimination have followed the traditional Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition of wage differences into endowment and discrimination components. This approach has neglected the possibility of wage ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1997-03)The relatively widespread use of poverty measures is analysed and their properties compared with other definitions of welfare. Using a synthetic data set but one which shares some properties of the Irish income distribution ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1999-04)When measuring poverty over time analysts must choose the value of the income elasticity of the poverty line, which essentially determines whether an absolute or relative poverty line is being used. The choice of this ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1999-11)This paper investigates the impact of own-health,and that of others, on individual labour supply. We estimate a model of hours of caring and hours of work using a large micro dataset of UK households. We find that own ill ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1995)This paper applies the concept of welfare dominance using concentration curves to household data for Ireland. It identifies marginal tax reforms which would be welfare-enhancing for all social welfare functions satisfying ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1993-01)This paper examines the conjecture that tax reform recommendations are not as sensitive to underlying consumer demand systems as are derived optimal tax rates. Tax reform recommendations for Ireland using the Ahmad-Stern ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1992)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1992)