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inequality persistency. It is firstly outlined that the critical increase in the population education level in all countries has … not come with lower inequality. The basic tools of education and intergenerational mobility modelling are subsequently …We review the economic literature on the impacts of the several dimensions of education upon intergenerational …
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convincing explanations for why France entered a fertility transition over a century before anywhere else in the world. This …
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mobility and increases the average education level in the population. We also show that a planner that encourages social …
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return to a patrimonial society, corporations become political actors; occupational status and education's relevance are … declining; the meaning of poverty is transformed, and welfare and punishment become interdependent means to social order; in …
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between skilled labor and unskilled labor wages. The question we ask is how the growth process shapes the wage inequality and … inequality. First, we prove the existence of equilibrium paths. Then we show that there exists a continuum of steady … of income inequality between skilled and unskilled workers and income in-equality among the skilled workers. The former …
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large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …
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High levels of inequality are a persistent feature of many rural areas in the developing world. Rural inequality is … poverty and inequality in rural areas. While the poverty impacts of those programs are well documented in the literature less …'), while excluding the upper tail (i.e. ‘the rich') from the program, must lead to a reduction in inequality. In this paper we …
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, circular and retroactive relationships with globalization, growth and poverty. The objective of this paper is to establish a … poverty. In this aim, the first section of paper presents critical evaluation of equity vs. equality debate, specifically …
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The paper explores different applications of the Shapley value for either inequality or poverty measures. We first … investigate the problem of source decomposition of inequality measures, the so-called additive income sources inequality games … income sources inequality games provide dual results compared with Chantreuil and Trannoy's ones. We also investigate the …
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is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate … of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the microeconomic level. Testing a model of poverty change on a panel … of data for 70 countries from 1981 to 1999, we do find that income instability results in a lower poverty reduction for a …
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