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sensitivity of country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A …Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes …
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shape of the distribution and derived measures of inequality, poverty, and mobility. Using employment histories of German …
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This paper examines the long-run effect of foreign aid on income inequality for 21 recipient countries using panel … cointegration techniques to control for omitted variable and endogeneity bias. We find that aid exerts an inequality increasing …
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on inequality, bipolarization and polarization is analyzed via what is known as the Shapley de-composition and the …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 …
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) and income inequality in the United States. Using panel cointegration techniques that allow for cross …-sectional heterogeneity, cross-sectional dependence, and endogenous regressors, we find that the short-run effects of FDI on income inequality … negative effect on income inequality in the United States. This result for the United States as a whole does not imply that FDI …
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developing countries. Applying inequality indices and FieldsÂ’ (2001) decomposition methodology to Bolivian household survey data … of the years 1989 to 1997, we identify recent trends in wage inequality of urban Bolivia. Using a rent-based dual …
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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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Germany'’s social security system is surveyed, its benefits and contributions are discussed. The expansion of this system in the last decades is described, its impact on employment and growth is studied and proposals for the reform of the system are discussed.
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The proposal involves the establishment of ?welfare accounts? for every person in a country. There are to be four accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital account (covering education and training), and a health...
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This paper discusses the underpinnings of the financial crisis of the last decade. It explores the endogenous reasons of this crisis, and in particular a possible link between delayed and unequal growth of household incomes in post-transition countries on one hand and the instability of their...
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