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The Developing World's Bulging (but Vulnerable) "Middle Class"
Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009
The "developing world's middle class" is defined here as those who are not poor when judged by the median poverty line …-fifths came from Asia, and half from China. Most of the new entrants remained fairly close to poverty, with incomes now bunched up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005141919
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Can the Introduction of a Minimum Wage in FYR Macedonia Decrease the Gender Wage Gap?
F. Angel-Urdinola, Diego - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008
This paper relies on a simple framework to understand the gender wage gap in Macedonia, and simulates how the gender wage gap would behave after the introduction of a minimum wage. First, it presents a new–albeit simple–decomposition of the wage gap into three factors: (i) a wage level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005141803