Fiscal consolidations and income inequality: Evaluating the evidence
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Fiscal austerity; Income inequality; Dose-response function;All these keywords.
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- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
- H62 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Deficit; Surplus
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