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Intergenerational Mobility of Russian Households
To understand the nature of income inequality one needs to know how persistent the inequality is across generations. The…
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Socio-Economic Policy in Poland: A Year of Major Changes in Benefits, Taxes, and Pensions
2016 was the first full calendar year of the new Polish government elected to power in October 2015. The year marked a n…
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Highly Educated Women No Longer Have Fewer Kids
This policy brief summarizes evidence that the cross-sectional relationship between fertility and women’s education in t…
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Latvia Stumbling Towards Progressive Income Taxation
The 2016 budget includes measures aimed at increasing the progressivity of the Latvian income tax system. In this brief…
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Examining Social Exclusion among the 50+ in Europe – Evidence from the Fifth Wave of the SHARE Survey
Though intuitive, the concept of social exclusion is complex and hard to measure. Recently, however, we have witnessed p…
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Distribution of the VAT Burden in Poland by Income Group and Demographic Characteristics
Authors: Michal Myck and Monika Oczkowska, CenEA. The Value Added Tax (VAT) is the main source of revenue for the public…
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Crisis and Trust
Authors: Maxim Ananyev and Sergei Guriev, CEFIR Our research uses the 2008-2009-crisis experience in Russia to identify…
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Growing Inequalities in Workplace Amenities
Inequality is considered to be a serious detrimental factor for societies’ development. It has been shown to undermine t…
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Equity and Efficiency in the Latvian Tax-Benefit System
There is a trade-off between two major objectives of a tax-benefit system: equity and efficiency. The tax-benefit system…
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