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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 …
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employment and distinct aspects of the wage distribution - wage levels, wage gaps, and poverty and inequality indicators - with … wages of more educated workers declined, bringing forth reductions in poverty and inequality. Second, I build a model that … percent of the occupational downgrading and around 80 percent of the changes in wage levels, inequality, and poverty during …
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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
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 …
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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. …
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beginning of the 20th century. Until the 1970s, the country experienced a fall in inequality in spite of lower income growth …. Since then, inequality has generally increased possibly as a result of large-scale shocks such as macroeconomic crises and …
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When measuring income inequality over long periods of time, accounting for population and productivity growth is … that the U-shaped inequality trend over the past century holds up, but with important qualifications. Using measures that …-term income inequality trends. …
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capital in advanced economies. It synthesizes empirical evidence on worker displacement, productivity, and income inequality …
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information is inadequate to fully capture the evolution of inequality and the properties of earnings changes as nonresponse is …
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period inequality increased substantially. Two types of episodes have shaped this upward trend: deep macroeconomic crises and … periods of sudden and intense economic liberalization. The sizeable rise in inequality in the 1990s seems to be associated to … subsequent recoveries contributed to the volatility of inequality along this upward trend. The large macroeconomic crisis of 2001 …
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