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inequality measures. LIS is a well-managed and undeniably important global public institution for research on inequality and … addressed by a truly global micro-data base for studying poverty and inequality. …
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The interplay of between- and within-country inequality, the relative contribution of each to overall global inequality … avenue for economic research. Drawing conclusions from aggregate inequality indices such as the Gini and Theil reduces the … highly complex nature of global inequality to a single coefficient and makes it impossible to take a nuanced view of how …
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comparable methodology yields the following results. Direct taxes and cash transfers reduce inequality and poverty by nontrivial … at government costs, they reduce inequality in all countries by considerably more than cash transfers, reflecting their …
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Inequality in Mexico rose between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2010. We examine the role of market … (cash transfers) in explaining changes in inequality. We apply the ‘re-centered influence function’ method to decompose …-in demand; institutional factors were not relevant. Government transfers contributed to the decline in inequality, especially …
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Income differences arise from many sources. While some kinds of inequality, caused by effort differences, might be … Surveys, to revisit the question of whether inequality is associated with economic growth and, in particular, to examine … whether inequality of opportunity – driven by circumstances at birth - has a negative effect on subsequent growth. Results are …
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-level datasets, as well as datasets reconstructed from grouped data on income distribution taken from the World Income Inequality … growth in the short term, while the impact of income inequality on growth is statistically insignificant. Our results are …
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central tendency, inequality and poverty and also measures of the degree of pro-poorness of a shock- or policy-induced change …
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scenario in which offshoring explains the gains in competitiveness but increases unemployment and inequality, and the …, amplifying the rise in inequality. The model outcomes are consistent with all the developments of the German economy since 1995 … comes with both higher inequality and higher unemployment; 3) The setting of the labour market reform reduces unemployment …
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Food price inflation in Brazil in the twelve months to June 2008 was 18 percent, while overall inflation was 5.3 percent. This paper uses spatially disaggregated monthly data on consumer prices and two different household surveys to estimate the welfare consequences of these food price...
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Conventional wisdom states that fiscal policy redistributes little in Latin America. Lower tax revenues and – above all – lower and less progressive transfers have been identified as the main cause. Existing studies show that, while in Europe the distribution of all transfers combined (cash...
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