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wage inequality widened relatively more between unskilled and skilled workers. The reasons for the persistence of … unemployment are discussed, the impact of the increasing unemployment and growing inequality in wage distribution on income …
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This paper argues that previous cross-country (panel) studies on the relationship between income inequality and health …-country heterogeneity in the impact of inequality on health. Using panel cointegration techniques that are robust to omitted variables …, endogenous regressors, and slope heterogeneity, we find that income inequality has, on average, a small, but robust and …
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poverty module (GlobPov), we assess the implication of the IPCC SRES scenarios on global poverty and inequality. We find that … global poverty and inequality measures are sensitive to the downscaling methodology used. Our results show that future … population growth rates produce better outcomes. China and India play a central role on poverty reduction and global inequality …
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absolute approach to inequality measurement when defining pro-poor growth. With a relative approach to pro-poor growth it is … assumed that inequality does not to vary when all incomes are multiplied by a constant whereas, with an absolute approach to … pro-poor growth, inequality is supposed not to vary when an equal sum is added to all incomes. The empirical illustration …
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Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … sensitivity of country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A …
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We assess the effect of income inequality on life expectancy by performing separate estimations for developed and … developing countries. Our empirical analysis challenges the widely held view that inequality matters more for health in richer … income inequality increases life expectancy in developed countries. By contrast, the effect on life expectancy is …
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of income derived from non-agricultural activities and household wealth as well as total household income. Survival …-led engagement in non-agricultural activities would be inequality-decreasing through increasing the incomes of the poorer parts of … the population and would reduce poverty. Opportunity-led diversification, by contrast, would increase inequality and have …
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Inequality, bi-polarization and polarization are related but distinct concepts aiming at analysing the income … distribution. This paper first recalls the main differences between these three notions of inequality, bipolarization and … on inequality, bipolarization and polarization is analyzed via what is known as the Shapley de-composition and the …
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. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional …
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The aim of this paper is to provide fresh empirical evidence of the mechanisms through which wage inequality affects … inequality. Her results are robust within the different specifications and different definitions of the reference group. …
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