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The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …
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This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of decomposition methods that have been developed since the seminal work of Oaxaca and Blinder in the early 1970s. These methods are used to decompose the difference in a distributional statistic between two groups, or its change over time, into...
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inequality, and analyses several explanations for this result. A causal link is established by showing that the results are … robust to the inclusion of city fixed-effects and city-specific time trends, and by using inequality in the woman’s state of … birth as a proxy for the local level of male inequality. Increasing male inequality explains about 30% of the marriage rate …
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This paper documents patterns and recent developments on income inequality in Latin America (LA). New comparative … international evidence confirms that LA is a region of high inequality, although maybe not the highest in the world. Income … inequality has fallen in the 2000s, suggesting a turning point from the substantial increases of the 1980s and 1990s. The fall in …
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over the period 1967-1996. We then use the estimated parameter values to decompose inequality in all variables of interest …
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, while inequality tends to rise monotonically. Bonus caps and income taxes can help restore balance in agents' incentives and …
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This study explains the evolution of wage inequality over the last 30 years and supports this explanation with evidence … the role of ability, technological progress increases wage inequality within each group of education as well as between … education groups. Inasmuch as education is an irreversible investment, the rise in within group inequality boosts up the rise of …
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one gets about trends in the level and inequality of living standards in the UK when using consumption, and when one adds …
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Under the Universal Credit reform, the main means-tested benefits except the Council Tax Benefit will be pooled into one single benefit with one single taper rate. The reform will give people better incentives to work, reduce complexity and contribute to reducing poverty. The reform could reduce...
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