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East Asia and Latin America have diverged in several dimensions in the past three decades. This paper compares household saving behavior in two countries in each region (Mexico, Peru, Thailand and Taiwan). We make four contributions. First, we provide the first comparisons of savings in these...
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Change in income inequality in Taiwan from 1964 to 1995 is sensitive to how household incomes are adjusted for … the widely noted increase in income inequality from 1980 to 1995, and calls into question whether income inequality … demographic transition has contributed only slightly to increasing income inequality across all ages. The entry of women into the …
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Since Aristotle, a vast literature has suggested that economic inequality has important political consequences. Higher … inequality is thought to increase demand for government income redistribution in democracies and to discourage democratization … how high inequality is, how it has been changing, and where they fit in the income distribution. Using a variety of large …
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The past decades the problem of income inequality and welfare segregation has presented itself as one of the biggest … into decreasing the income inequality witch has risen for average 4% annually over the past 15 years, according to the GINI … index. The problem of income inequality for Republic of Macedonia starches further as the country presents itself as one the …
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In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and … part of the literature that considers inequality detrimental to growth, more recent studies have challenged this result and … found a positive effect of inequality on growth. This paper contributes to the debate by using meta-analytical techniques to …
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Outside the US, little is known of long-run trends in executive compensation. We fill this gap by studying BHP, a resources giant that has long been one of the largest companies on the Australian stock market. From 1887 to 2013, trends in CEO and director remuneration (relative to average...
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Mobility of top incomes matters for both the openness of the income elite and the share of total income that this group receives. It is thus an important complement information to the growing snapshot literature on top income concentration. I use microlevel panel data of German income tax files...
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