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The article analyses the issue of economic inequality in the transition economies of Central, East and Southeast Europe … part we point at the fact that the rise in income inequality was triggered by the magnitude of transitional output loss and … a reduction of formal employment. Rising wage inequality was at the core of total income dispersion, while government …
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The paper analyses economic inequality in Croatia in comparison with other transition economies of Central, East and … of income inequality. The decomposition analysis of the period 2000-2006 shows that, although the concentration of income … from paid employment was rising, overall stability of income inequality was due to a reduction of the more unequally …
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possible implications of this key fact by surveying and adapting literature on growth and inequality. I focus especially on the …
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levels of inequality, but in the early 2000s the latter group reached a level of inequality seven percentage points higher …. We review various factors of inequality and examine whether these had differential effects in the two groups. Foreign … Direct Investments and trade flows with the EU had a bigger inequality-enhancing effect in New Member States. We interpret …
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provision of social justice in the form of the fight against poverty, inequality and unemployment and maintenance of political …
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Abstract Recent increases in automation and unemployment have aggravated income inequality in India. Thus, it is … imperative for policy-makers to cut down on inequality and unemployment while promoting planned automation. This paper proposes a … joint solution to reform India’s taxation framework to fight income inequality while promoting planned automation. The paper …
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Zusammenfassung Der Beitrag analysiert die Einflussmöglichkeiten des Staates bei der Gestaltung von Arbeitsbedingungen am Beispiel der Lohnsetzung. Der Vergleich von drei Ländern mit vergleichsweise inklusiven Lohnsystemen - Schweden, Frankreich und Deutschland - veranschaulicht, dass der...
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responsive to increases in inequality. A substantial literature on the impacts of inequality on economic growth exists, but has … increased levels of income inequality. This paper departs from that literature by exploring the effect of inequality on the … standard of living of middle-income and low-income families. In the context of rising inequality, increased overall growth is …
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Abstract This paper examines inequality and mobility using measures of income and consumption. Consumption is claimed … to be a better measure of permanent income and thus well-being, but most studies of inequality and mobility using U … examine changes in inequality and mobility. Similar to earlier findings, we show that there has been a large increase in …
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