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The conflict between the income based and nutrition based estimates of poverty is a widely debated issue in economic … literature. This paper, using a two commodity framework, attempts to show that in presence of inequality, a status driven utility … function can reconcile the conflict between the two measures of poverty. In addition, a simple general equilibrium model using …
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urban inequality, a reduction in urban poverty, and a lower level of overall inclusive growth of a city. …
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An attempt has been made in this paper to examine the impact of international remittances on poverty and income … inequality in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In carrying out the study, 34 SSA countries for which relevant data are available …, between 1980 and 2009, were sampled for the poverty analysis whilst a sample size of 36 was used in the remittances …
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their interplay with income inequality. We identify a positive interaction of perceived social mobility that mitigates its … overall impact of income inequality that is SWB lowering, while for low social mobility the effect of inequality is positive …. These interactions hold stronger for pre-transfer than post-transfer income inequality. Actual social mobility appears to be …
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effects, particularly in their interplay with income inequality. We identify a positive interaction of perceived social … mobility that mitigates the overall SWB lowering effect of income inequality. In contrast to expectations, a high degree of … actual social mobility yields an overall impact of income inequality that is SWB lowering, while for low social mobility the …
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This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that income and consumption inequality in Poland increased substantially … income inequality increased in 1989 but subsequently declined to pretransition levels. The distribution of consumption … income inequality during the transition. However, the relative well-being of different socioeconomic groups was altered and …
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This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …
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This paper studies the effects of progressive income taxes and education finance in a dynamic heterogeneous agent economy. Such redistributive policies entail distortions to labour supply and savings, but also serve as partial substitutes for missing credit and insurance markets. The resulting...
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This paper analyzes the relationship between mean income and the income of the rich. Our methodology closely follows that of Dollar and Kraay (2002), but instead of looking at the bottom of the distribution, we analyze the top. We use panel data from the World Top Incomes database, which...
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This paper investigates the determinants of group membership, and in particular the effect of income inequality on … individual incentives to join economic groups. Drawing on a simple model, we show that an increase in inequality has an ambiguous … inequality leads to more or less group participation. Using survey data from rural Tanzania we find that inequality at the …
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