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a given degree of earnings inequality, more earnings mobility corresponds to securing greater labour market opportunity … in earnings mobility in Canada. Mobility analysis can be seen as a complement to the analysis of income distribution. For … their net probability of upward mobility in the earnings distribution during recessions, as the probability of moving up …
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Morley Gunderson presents an overview of issues related to North American economic integration and globalization. He … first notes that economic integration has both a deepening and widening dimension and enumerates the various aspects of … these two dimensions in the context of North American integration, noting that in practice the different dimensions …
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. Inequality was notably lower in Canada, with a Gini coefficient of 0.285 for equivalent LIMEW in 2005, compared to a US …
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household’s total command over economic resources in the six years between 1999 and 2005. Although inequality in economic well …
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authors focus on four aspects of distribution outcomes: (1) earnings and income inequality; (2) the relative earnings of the …
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increasing income inequality, mostly between rural and urban areas but also within both rural and urban areas and across regions … results do not show that trends in inequality have a significant effect on poverty. However, the process of economic growth …, besides bringing the benefits of productivity increases, also brings structural adjustments that exacerbate income inequality …
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also found that the higher is income inequality within a country the more limited is the impact of growth on reducing … relationships between productivity growth, poverty and inequality. The present study uses several sources of international data on … labour productivity, poverty and income inequality, and finds that across the developing countries for which data are …
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value judgment that inequality and insecurity do not matter, the paper demonstrates that a better measure of “command over …
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This report presents new estimates of the Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) and its four domains (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, economic equality, and economic security) for 14 OECD countries for the 1980-2007 period. It finds that in 2007 Norway had the highest level of economic...
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This report has two main objectives. The first is to outline the development of the methodology for the measurement of economic security in the Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) and to provide updated estimates of the Index of Economic Security over the 1980-2007 period for seven developed...
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