[…] and the recession in Russia which started in 2014 are increasing pressures for fiscal consolidation, after more than a decade of prosperity. This article assesses the distributional impact of the main tax and social spending programmes in Russia in 2014 by applying a state-of-the-art incidence analysis. Overall, the Russian welfare state achieves a moderate […]
Parliamentary libraries are important in supporting informed decision-making in democracies. Understanding Members’ information needs is important, but the usage and impact of these libraries have been less explored. A particular example of the United Kingdom’s House of Lords Library is studied, collecting and analysing data using techniques from the field of data science. These […]
Income inequality, as well as the impact of tax and benefit reforms on it, has typically been evaluated with respect to ‘snapshot’ incomes, measured over short periods such as one week or year. But longitudinal data allows long-run measures of income to be used, which will be of interest to policymakers interested in persistent, […]
[…] find a variety of effects, in terms of sign and magnitude, across Member States, and within these, among types of households. Overall, our findings suggest that the impact of TE on tax revenues and on income inequalities can be sizable. The redistributive impact of removing TEs can go in both directions, either on the […]
Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic may have a greater impact on people with disabilities than non-disabled people. Our aim was to compare the short-term impact of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and first lockdown on the employment and financial security of working age adults with and without disabilities in the UK. Methods: Secondary […]
[…] a tool for analysing the prospective effects of fiscal policies on childhood health in European countries. The aim of this first MICH study is to evaluate the impact of alternative fiscal policies on childhood overweight and obesity in Italy. Methods: MICH model is composed of three integrated modules. Firstly, module 1 (M1) simulates the […]
[…] presents new evidence on the determinants of unemployment duration for men and women in Britain in the 1990s, using a nationally representative data set. It examines the impact of individual and local labour market characteristics on the probability of unemployment spells ending with moves into full and part-time employment, self-employment and economic inactivity. The […]
[…] contact and cooperation in sample surveys: the individual and fieldwork characteristics. When focusing on the attrition problem in household panel surveys it is possible to evaluate the impact of those two factors by estimating contact and co-operation probability models as in Lepkowski and Couper (2002) and Nicoletti and Peracchi (2005). Those models are useful […]
[…] units are interviewed at regular intervals, are affected by measurement error at each interview. The causes of measurement error are similar to those in cross-sectional surveys. The impact on estimates may however be worse. To improve the quality of panel data, survey organisations are increasingly using dependent interviewing (DI) techniques, whereby information about the […]