Summary: - The crisis entailed a dramatic widening of the market income distribution. All income groups were hit, but the bottom and middle ones suffered stronger and more persistent losses. - The tax and transfer system was crucial at taming the rise in inequality, with cash transfers be
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Vanda Almeida
Economiste au Joint Research Centre de la Commission Européenne (Séville)Vanda est actuellement économiste à la Commission Européenne après un doctorat à l’Ecole d’Economie de Paris. Sa thèse porte sur les effets macroéconomiques des inégalités de revenus et le rôle des mécanismes de redistribution comme instruments de stabilisation macroéconomique. Elle est diplômée de la NOVA School of Business and Economics (Licenciatura en Economie), de la Lisbon School of Economics and Management (Master en Econométrie) et de l’Ecole d’Economie de Paris (Master en Politiques Publiques et Développement). Elle a travaillé comme économiste à la Banque Centrale du Portugal, à l’OCDE, au LISER (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research) et a enseigné à Sciences-Po.
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Why rising income inequality may hurt aggregate activity: the role of the marginal propensity to consume Summary: - The marginal propensity to consume is a declining function of income. - An increase in income inequality will therefore divert resources away from agents with
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Summary: · Wage insurance protects workers against the fundamental risk of earnings loss following an involuntary displacement and reemployment process. · It was initially motivate
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This article provides detailed insights into the distributional effects of the 2007-2008 crisis and aftermath government policies, in Portugal. It sheds new light on the distributional consequences of aggregate crises and crisis-coping policies, providing useful information for improving their de
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