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Inequality in education: Evidence for Latin America

Cruces, Guillermo; García Domench, Carolina; … - 2011

2000s in terms of both the assessment of the equity of the education expansion and its impact on the income distribution …

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Uruguay's income inequality and political regimes during 1981 - 2010

Amarante, Verónica; Colafranceschi, Marco; Vigorito, Andrea - 2011

-left (2005-10). Income inequality diminished during the restoration of democracy, but started to grow steadily in the mid-1990s … reduction in labour income inequality and the introduction of noncontributory public transfers schemes. …

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Older people's participation in disability benefits: Targeting, timing and financial wellbeing

Zantomio, Francesca - 2010

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of disability benefits for the elderly. Using seventeen waves of panel data, it first analyses the extent to which receipt is responsive to changes in disability status. Second, it investigates the extent of delays in first receipt. Third, it compares later...

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Attendance allowance and disability living allowance claimants in the older population: Is there a difference in their economic circumstances?

Hancock, Ruth; Morciano, Marcello - 2010

survey data on household incomes and find no evidence of higher levels of income deprivation among DLA than AA recipients in … terms of equivalised pre-benefit family income. …

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China and the United States: Different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobility

van der Weide, Roy; Narayan, Ambar - 2019

The United States and China are the world's largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world's economic output. This paper aims to examine whether the two economic giants are also lands of opportunity where resources are allocated in a way that minimizes...

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Changes in inequality within countries after 1990

Gradín, Carlos - 2020

In this paper, we use the World Income Inequality Database to assess the main trends in inequality within countries … period of time. These trends are complemented with information for inequality in income and wealth from other sources, paying …

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Differences in inequality measurement: Ghana case study

Atta-Ankomah, Richmond; Lambon-Quayefio, Monica; Osei, … - 2023

Over the years, money-metric measures of inequality such as the Gini coefficient and the Palma Ratio, as frequently used in Ghana, have become useful in providing quantitative measures of welfare distribution that enable a better understanding of the extent and nature of inequality. From these...

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Natural disasters and economic inequality: Insights from wildfires across the globe

Paudel, Jayash - 2023

Natural disasters cause economic damages and may exacerbate disparities in income distribution among countries across …, implying that natural disasters may serve as a means of creative destruction. This effect is prominent among uppermiddle-income …

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Concepts and operationalization of pro-poor growth

Negre, Mario - 2010

to the cases in which the mean income of the poor increases proportionally more than that of the non-poor. A new index is …

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Inequality, income and poverty: Comparative global evidence

Fosu, Augustin Kwasi - 2010

on the role of (income) inequality in poverty reduction. The evidence involves both an indirect channel via the tendency … of high inequality to decrease the rate at which income is transformed to poverty reduction and the tendency of rising … headcount measure of poverty as the dependent variable and the Gini coefficient and PPP-adjusted mean income as explanatory …

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