Equality Enhancing Benefit Cut - Possible, but Unlikely

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This paper considers whether a replacement rate cut can be income equality enhancing and with what conditions. The logical answer to the question is yes, if the propensity of moving from low income state to high income state is high enough. The main contribution of this paper is to derive an analytical expression of income equality improving elasticity. It specifies the limit, after which replacement rate cut is equality enhancing measured by Gini coefficient.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Discussion paper ; No. 134

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Demand and Supply of Labor: General ; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions ; Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings
• Subject: Income Equality ; Income Distribution ; Unemployment Benefits ; Gini coefficient

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Kotamäki, Mauri
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Aboa Centre for Economics (ACE)
• (where): Turku
• (when): 2020

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/233349
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET