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The growth-employment-poverty Nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Cross-country analysis
Cruces, Guillermo; Fields, Gary S.; Jaume, David; … - 2016
improvements in almost all labour market indicators and consequent reductions in poverty rates. Across countries, economic growth … reductions in poverty were strongly related to improvements in earnings and employment indicators. Although the 2008 crisis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646665
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The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Cross-country analysis
Cruces, Guillermo; Fields, Gary; Jaume, David; Viollaz, … - 2015
improvements in almost all labour market indicators and consequent reductions in poverty rates. Across countries, economic growth … reductions in poverty were strongly related to improvements in earnings and employment indicators. Although the 2008 crisis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440688
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Capital Shares and Income inequality: Evidence from the Long Run
Bengtsson, Erik; Waldenström, Daniel - 2015
This paper investigates the relationship between the capital share in national income and personal income inequality … income shares with a broader measure of inequality (Gini coefficient), the positive relationship re-mains but becomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420757
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The impact of household capital income on income inequality: A factor decomposition analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA
Fräßdorf, Anna; Grabka, Markus M.; Schwarze, Johannes - 2008
This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324272
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Dealing with incomplete household panel data in inequality research
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2010
substantive results in the inequality research. We find indications of substantial bias on income inequality and poverty as well …. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324275
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The Impact of Household Capital Income on Income Inequality: A Factor Decomposition Analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA
Fräßdorf, Anna; Grabka, Markus M.; Schwarze, Johannes - 2008
This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600750
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Dealing with Incomplete Household Panel Data in Inequality Research
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2010
substantive results in the inequality research. We find indications of substantial bias on income inequality and poverty as well …. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600932
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Vermögen in Deutschland wesentlich ungleicher verteilt als Einkommen
Grabka, Markus M.; Frick, Joachim R. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 74 (2007) 45, pp. 665-672
Das private Vermögen in Deutschland ist vor dem Hintergrund der Erbschaftsteuerreform und der zunehmenden Privatisierung der sozialen Vorsorge verstärkt in den Blickpunkt der wirtschafts- und sozialpolitischen Diskussion gerückt. Mit den Ergebnissen der Vermögenserhebung im Rahmen des...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601764
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Chronicle of a deceleration foretold: Income inequality in Latin America in the 2010s
Gasparini, Leonardo; Cruces, Guillermo; Tornarolli, Leopoldo - 2015
signs of a deceleration in the pace of inequality reduction in Latin America. This paper argues that the deceleration is the … result of two set of reasons. First, several of the driving factors of the fall in inequality in the 2000s have lost strength … early 2010s, making further reductions in inequality more difficult. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646663
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The low-wage sector in Germany is larger than previously assumed
Grabka, Markus M.; Schröder, Carsten - In: DIW Weekly Report 9 (2019) 14, pp. 117-124
The total number of dependent employees in Germany has increased by more than four million since the financial crisis. Part of this growth took place in the low-wage sector. Analyses based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel, which in 2017 for the first time include detailed information on...
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