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We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor in … Western Germany, more so than in the USA, and inequality did not rise as much. …
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inequality predicts longer work hours in ten OECD countries over the period 1963-1998. The country fixed effects estimates of the … impact of inequality on hours are large, robust, and cannot be explained by conventional incentive effects. In the presence …
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show that income inequality of reference group of husbands in age-regional cross sections can be a predictor of their wives …
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Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap …
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monitor low?paid employees and the resulting changes in inequality and employment at the low end of the income distribution …. This paper addresses power biases and income inequality at the high end. Increasing firm?level financial volatility has …
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-paid employees, increased that for higher-paid employees, and led to an increase in income inequality. Thus, the more important …
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The economic analysis of global warming is dominated by models based on optimal growth theory. These representative-agent models have an intrinsic distributional bias in favor of the rich. The bias is compounded by the se of revenue-neutrality in the allocation of emission permits. The result is...
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This paper examines the relationship among poverty, economic growth, and inequality by decomposing poverty changes at …
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This paper aims to explore the determinants of household income and expenditure growth, and assess whether the poor are benefiting from economic development. Using regression analysis, five factors were examined: (1) location of the household, (2) access to infrastructure, (3) changes in rice...
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reducing poverty and perhaps inequality, as well as better fertility management--particularly among the poor--aimed at the …
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