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Demographic disparities between the rates of occurrence of an adverse economic outcome can be observed to be increasing even as general social improvements supposedly lead towards the elimination of the adverse outcome in question. Scanlan (2006) noticed this tendency and developed a...
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-income households. The search for significant relationships between multidimensional deprivation and income poverty has been a central …
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-oriented analysis. This paper examines empirical strategies to measure poverty and inequality in multiple domains, concentrating on two …
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This paper provides a measure of economic well-being for the Italian context. In the last two decades Italy experienced a sharp increase in labour market flexibility and a relative loss of command over resources of young generations with respect to older ones. We include new measures of...
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Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), both income inequality and poverty are considered for … the crisis – in 2009 – inequality dropped, and it increased afterwards. Poverty was not affected very much by economic … developments during the crisis but at least an in-crease of persons, who stayed within the poverty region, occurred between 2008 …
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in Colombia and Peru. Relying on household survey data, we simulate the potential impact of the transfer on poverty … Nested Logit Model. Our results show that a NCP in Colombia and Peru contributes to the reduction of poverty and inequality …
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-record data sets for multiple countries, in addition to providing summary statistics from those data, including poverty and … addressed by a truly global micro-data base for studying poverty and inequality. …
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The interplay of between- and within-country inequality, the relative contribution of each to overall global inequality, and the implications this has for who benefits from recent global growth (and by how much), has become a significant avenue for economic research. Drawing conclusions from...
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The aim of this paper is to explain why poverty and material deprivation in South Africa are significantly higher among … those of African descent than among whites. To do so, we estimate the conditional levels of poverty and deprivation Africans … show that the racial gap in poverty and deprivation can be attributed to the cumulative disadvantaged characteristics of …
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Fiscal policy can change poverty and inequality substantially or slightly depending on the government’s redistributive … independent evaluations. CEQ relies on inequality, poverty and tax and benefit incidence analyses. …
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