Browsing by Subject "Income distribution"
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A comparative perspective on trends in income inequality in Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2000)Both overall income inequality and inequality in the distribution of earnings rose sharply during the 1980s and 1990s in a number of industrialised countries, notably the UK and the USA. This makes it particularly important ... -
Benchmarking, social partnership and higher remuneration : wage settling institutions and the public-private sector wage gap in Ireland
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Comparing the wealth of nations: reference prices and multilateral real income indexes
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1997)This paper considers the problem of comparing real incomes across countries. The available methods are reviewed and their performance is compared using the raw data underlying the Penn World Table. We propose and implement ... -
The development of an agricultural incomes policy
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1970)Considerable attention is now being given in Ireland to the development of an incomes policy for the community. There is general agreement that such a policy should apply to all incomes?not only to wages and salaries ... -
Distributional aspects of Ireland's fiscal adjustment
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1992)Conflicting claims about the distributional impact of Ireland's fiscal adjustment have been made. This paper clarifies the different implicit standards on which these may be based, and uses the limited available data on ... -
"Distributional aspects of Ireland's fiscal adjustment": a comment
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1992)There is little, if anything, I can add to the fine paper by Tim Callan and Brian Nolan in the way of statistical data or direct comment. Their treatment of the topic has been comprehensive, impartial and professional. The ... -
Equity in the utilisation of health care in Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2004)This paper analyses the extent of equity of health service delivery across the income distribution in Ireland ? that is the extent to which there is equal treatment for equal need irrespective of income. We find that ... -
Identifying economically vulnerable groups as the economic crisis emerged
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2010)A frequent refrain during recent debates on welfare cuts and tax increases has related to the need to ?protect the vulnerable?. However, it is far from clear that a consensus exists on which individuals or groups are to ... -
Income distribution : a preliminary report
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Income inequality and public policy
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2009)This paper briefly summarises the evidence that Ireland has a relatively high level of income inequality, which has been rather stable over time and reflects institutional legacies and choices made in the past. A comparative ... -
Inequality and the crisis: the distributional impact of tax increases and welfare and public sector pay cuts
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2010)The economic crisis impacts directly on the distribution of income via unemployment and private sector wages, but the way policy responds in seeking to control soaring fiscal deficits is also central to its distributional ... -
The limits of state interference with the distribution of wealth, in applying taxation to the assistance of the public
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1872)The science of political economy teaches the laws which regulate the creation, accumulation, and distribution of wealth. It has been fully proved that as soon as society arrives at a very moderate degree of civilization, ... -
Personal incomes by region in 1977
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Poverty and the distribution of income in Northern Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1991)This paper uses the 1985 Family Expenditure Survey sample to examine the extent and incidence of poverty in Northern Ireland and to explore the relationship with the distribution of income. The study concludes that incomes ... -
Reassessing income and deprivation approaches to the measurement of poverty in the Republic of Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2001)This paper reassesses the validity of a poverty measure combining relative income and non-monetary deprivation indicators, first developed and applied to Irish data for 1987, in the light of experience since then and ... -
Redistribution over the lifetime in the Irish tax-benefit system: an application of a prototype dynamic microsimulation model for Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2001)This paper examines the distribution of lifetime income in Ireland. To do this a new prototype dynamic microsimulation model for Ireland is used to generate lifetime income streams. Aggregating over the lifetime we can ... -
Redistribution through state social expenditure in the Republic of Ireland, 1973-1980
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The distributional impact of a carbon tax in Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2009)We study the effects of carbon taxation and revenue recycling across the income distribution in Ireland. Price changes of fuels and all other final goods and services are taken into account. If applied only to the emissions ...
