Calendrier du 09 juin 2020
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 09/06/2020 de 17:00 à 18:00
IACOBELLI Giulio ()
Delegating War
Virtual Development Economics Seminar
Du 09/06/2020 de 17:00 à 18:30
DUPAS Pascaline ()
Expanding Access to Clean Water for the Rural Poor: Experimental Evidence from Malawi.
écrit avec NHLEMA Basimenya, WAGNER Zachary, WOLF Aaron and WROE Emily
Paris Trade Seminar
Du 09/06/2020 de 14:30 à 16:00
PSE, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014, Paris - salle R2-01
BLANCHARD Emily (Dartmouth)
POSPONED
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 09/06/2020 de 13:00 à 14:00
Zoom
ALMEIDA Vanda ()
Accounting for the distributional effects of the 2007-2008 crisis and the Economic Adjustment Program in Portugal
This paper develops a new method to model the household disposable income distribution and decompose changes in this distribution (or functionals such as inequality measures) over time. It integrates both a micro-econometric and microsimulation approaches, combining a flexible parametric modelling of the distribution of market income with the EUROMOD microsimulation model to simulate the value of taxes and benefits. The method allows for the quantification of the contributions of four main factors to changes in the disposable income distribution between any two years: (i) labour market structure; (ii) returns; (iii) demographic composition; and (iv) tax-benefit system. We apply this new framework to the study of changes in the income
distribution in Portugal between 2007 and 2013, accounting for the distributional effects of the 2007-2008 crisis and aftermath policies, in particular the Economic Adjustment Program (EAP). Results show that these effects were substantial and reflected markedly different developments over two periods: 2007-2009, when stimulus packages determined important income gains for the bottom of the distribution and a decrease in income inequality; 2010-2013, when the crisis and austerity measures took a toll on the incomes of Portuguese households, particularly those at the bottom and top of the distribution, leading to an increase in income inequality.