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  1. Income growth and income distribution
    a long-run view of Irish experience
    Author: Callan, Tim; Bercholz, Maxime; Walsh, John
    Published: July 2018
    Publisher:  ESRI, Dublin

    Over the past 30 years, there have been periods of boom and bust, but average household incomes have grown strongly in Ireland. The distribution of household income has been broadly stable over this period, so that there has been... more

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    Over the past 30 years, there have been periods of boom and bust, but average household incomes have grown strongly in Ireland. The distribution of household income has been broadly stable over this period, so that there has been substantial growth for low-, middle- and high-income households. Ireland's rapid, even growth in incomes across the distribution is unusual in an international setting. During this time, inequality has risen in many other countries. As a result, while Ireland was once towards the high end of the inequality spectrum for an advanced country, it now occupies a middle-ranking position. Market income inequality is high in Ireland, but a redistributive tax and transfer system has helped to offset that. Over the 1987 to 2014 period, discretionary changes in tax and welfare policy led to gains which were greatest among those with incomes in the lowest 20 per cent of households. Much of this differential growth in incomes arose from the implementation of the recommendations of the Commission on Social Welfare (1986), which raised the payment rates for the schemes with the lowest payment levels.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/197500
    Series: Budget perspectives / ESRI ; 2019, paper 3
    Subjects: Haushaltseinkommen; Lohnniveau; Einkommensverteilung; Wirtschaftswachstum; Irland
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 27 Seiten), Illustrationen
  2. Housing Assistance Payment
    potential impacts on financial incentives to work
    Author: Roantree, Barra; Callan, Tim; Savage, Michael; Walsh, John
    Published: January 30, 2019
    Publisher:  ESRI, Dublin

    Since March 2017, a new income-related housing support for those with a long-term housing need called Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) has been available throughout the state. This paper examines the potential impact on financial work incentives of... more

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    Since March 2017, a new income-related housing support for those with a long-term housing need called Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) has been available throughout the state. This paper examines the potential impact on financial work incentives of transferring long-run Rent Supplement recipients onto HAP with tenants' rental contributions assessed through a national Differential Rents scheme, initially proposed by the Housing Agency but yet to be implemented. While such a system would strengthen the financial incentive for most long-term Rent Supplement claimants to be in full-time paid work, a small minority would continue to face quite weak incentives. This is driven by the receipt of multiple means-tested benefits - in particular, jobseekers allowance and one-parent family payment - which results in some low-income individuals facing very high effective marginal tax rates from relatively low levels of earnings.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/193947
    Series: Working paper / ESRI ; no. 610 (January 2019)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 33 Seiten), Illustrationen
  3. The economic crisis, public sector pay, and the income distribution
    Author: Callan, Tim; Nolan, Brian; Walsh, John
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  IZA, Bonn

    An important aspect of the impact of the economic crisis is how pay in the public sector responds – in the face not only of the evolution of pay in the private sector, but also extreme pressure on public spending (of which pay is a very large... more

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    An important aspect of the impact of the economic crisis is how pay in the public sector responds – in the face not only of the evolution of pay in the private sector, but also extreme pressure on public spending (of which pay is a very large proportion) as fiscal deficits soar. What are the effects on the income distribution of cutting public sector pay rates or alternative strategies to reduce the public sector pay bill, and how does these vary depending on the evolution of pay in the private sector? This paper investigates these issues using data and a tax-benefit simulation for Ireland, a country which faces a particularly severe fiscal crisis and where innovative measures have already been implemented to claw back pay from public sector workers in the guise of a "pensions levy", followed most recently by a significant cut in nominal pay rates. The SWITCH tax-benefit model first allows the distributional effects of these measures, which achieved a substantial reduction in the net public sector pay bill, to be teased out. The overall impact on the income distribution, set against alternative scenarios for pay in the private sector, is assessed. This provides empirical evidence relevant to policy choices in relation to a key aspect of household income over which governments have direct influence, while at the same time illustrating methodologically how a tax-benefit model can serve as the base for such investigation. -- Public sector pay ; income distribution ; fiscal crisis

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/36908
    Series: Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 4948
    Subjects: Vergütungssystem im öffentlichen Dienst; Haushaltskonsolidierung; Finanzkrise; Verteilungswirkung; Irland
    Scope: Online-Ressource ([16] S.), graph. Darst.
  4. The economic crisis, public sector pay, and the income distribution
    Author: Callan, Tim; Nolan, Brian; Walsh, John
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Economic and Social Research Inst., Dublin

    An important aspect of the impact of the economic crisis is how pay in the public sector responds in the face not only of the evolution of pay in the private sector, but also extreme pressure on public spending (of which pay is a very large... more

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    An important aspect of the impact of the economic crisis is how pay in the public sector responds in the face not only of the evolution of pay in the private sector, but also extreme pressure on public spending (of which pay is a very large proportion) as fiscal deficits soar. What are the effects on the income distribution of cutting public sector pay rates or alternative strategies to reduce the public sector pay bill, and how do these vary depending on the evolution of pay in the private sector? This paper investigates these issues using data and a tax-benefit simulation for Ireland, a country which faces a particularly severe fiscal crisis and where innovative measures have already been implemented to claw back pay from public sector workers in the guise of a pensions levyʺ, followed most recently by a significant cut in nominal pay rates. The SWITCH tax-benefit model first allows the distributional effects of these measures, which achieved a substantial reduction in the net public sector pay bill, to be teased out. The overall impact on the income distribution, set against alternative scenarios for pay in the private sector, is assessed. This provides empirical evidence relevant to policy choices in relation to a key aspect of household income over which governments have direct influence, while at the same time illustrating methodologically how a tax-benefit model can serve as the base for such investigation.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/50071
    Series: Working paper / The Economic and Social Research Institute ; 344
    Subjects: Vergütungssystem im öffentlichen Dienst; Haushaltskonsolidierung; Finanzkrise; Verteilungswirkung; Irland
    Scope: Online-Ressource (PDF-Datei: 28 S.), graph. Darst.
  5. Gender impact of tax and benefit changes
    a microsimulation approach
    Author: Keane, Claire; Callan, Tim; Walsh, John
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Economic and Social Research Institute, [Dublin]

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781908275707
    Series: Equality research series
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 65 Seiten), Illustrationen
  6. Income-related subsidies for Universal Health Insurance premia
    exploring alternatives using the SWITCH model
    Author: Callan, Tim; Colgan, Brian; Walsh, John
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  ESRI, [Dublin]

    The Programme for Government indicated that under a Universal Health Insurance system, the State would "pay insurance premia for people on low incomes and subsidise premia for people on middle incomes". This paper examines issues in the design of... more

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    The Programme for Government indicated that under a Universal Health Insurance system, the State would "pay insurance premia for people on low incomes and subsidise premia for people on middle incomes". This paper examines issues in the design of such a subsidy scheme, in the context of overall premium costs as estimated by Wren et al. (2015) and the KPMG (2015) study for the Health Insurance Authority. Subsidy design could involve a step-level system, similar to the medical card and GP visit card in the current system; or a smooth, tapered withdrawal of the subsidy, similar to what obtains for many cash benefits in the welfare system. The trade-offs between the income limit up to which a full subsidy would be payable, the rate of withdrawal of subsidy with respect to extra income and overall subsidy cost are explored.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
    Other identifier:
    hdl: 10419/129401
    Series: ESRI working paper ; 516
    Scope: Online-Ressource ([1], 31 S.), graph. Darst.