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Chapter 13 Income distribution and development
Kanbur, Ravi - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 1, (pp. 791-841). 2000
This paper is a review of the post-war literature on income distribution and development. It argues that the literature has cycled from one consensus to another, responding to emerging policy issues and new analysis. On the basis of the review, the paper identifies five areas that will command...
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Chapter 8. Post-1970 Trends in Within-Country Inequality and Poverty : Rich and Middle-Income Countries
Morelli, Salvatore; Smeeding, Timothy; Thompson, Jeffrey - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 593-696). 2015
in poverty and income inequality, up to 2010 or 2011 in most countries. We provide measures of the levels and trends in … each of these areas, as well as an integrated discussion of empirical choices made in the measurement of poverty, overall …
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Poverty persistence and poverty dynamics : snapshots of who is poor in one period provide an incomplete picture of poverty
Biewen, Martin - 2014
A considerable part of the poverty that is measured in a single period is transitory rather than persistent. In most … into and out of poverty should be the main focus of anti-poverty policies. Understanding the characteristics of the … persistently poor, and the circumstances and mechanisms associated with entry into and exit from poverty, can help to inform …
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Chapter 4 Historical perspectives on income distribution: The case of Europe
Morrisson, Christian - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 1, (pp. 217-260). 2000
and Germany, and in France. The inverse U-curve hypothesis is verified in four of them. Section 2 presents in a consistent …
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A Pure Theory of Job Security and Labour Income Risk
Bertola, Giuseppe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
Models of labour market equilibrium where forward-looking decisions maximize both profits and labour income on a risk-neutral basis, offer valuable insights into the effects of employment protection legislation. Since risk-neutral behaviour in the labour market presumes perfect insurance,...
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Inequality measurement with subgroup decomposability and level-sensitivity
Subramanian, Sreenivasan - 2011
Subgroup Decomposability is a very useful property in an inequality measure, and level-sensitivity, which requires a given level of inequality to acquire a greater significance the poorer a population is, is a distributionally appealing axiom for an inequality index to satisfy. In this paper,...
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Chapter 34 Equity in health care finance and delivery
Wagstaff, Adam; van Doorslaer, Eddy - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 1803-1862). 2000
The paper surveys the economics literature on equity in health care financing and delivery. The focus is, for the most part, on empirical work, especially that involving international and temporal comparisons. There is, however, some discussion of the concept and definition of equity. The...
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Chapter 8 Theories of persistent inequality and intergenerational mobility
Piketty, Thomas - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 1, (pp. 429-476). 2000
This chapter reviews the existing theories of persistent inequality across generations. The chapter discusses total economic inequality both in wealth and in earnings and focuses on the intergenerational mobility dimension of total inequality. The chapter presents a nonexhaustive, nontechnical...
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Chapter 19. Cross-Country Evidence of the Multiple Causes of Inequality Changes in the OECD Area
Förster, Michael F.; Tóth, István György - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 1729-1843). 2015
This chapter provides a thorough survey of what recent international (i.e., cross-country) studies can tell us about the multiple causes of income inequality in the OECD area with regard to both levels and trends. The survey covers economics literature in particular but also relevant evidence...
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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth
Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006
This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory...
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