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from the mine, while district-level consumption inequality increases in all districts belonging to a producing province …
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Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the life-cycle become manifest with the ageing of the population. Reinvention of human capital policies...
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We explore the relationship between the level of village inequality in 1986, and the subsequent growth of household … inequality is negatively related to subsequent household income growth. We are able to address a number of econometric issues … suggest that village inequality has an external adverse impact on household-level income trajectories. However, once we …
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The unprecedented large scale rural-to-urban migration in China has left many rural children living apart from their parents. In this study, we examine the impact of parental migration on the nutritional status of young children in rural areas. We use the interaction terms between wage growth in...
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Differences in geopolitical regions of Nigeria are not debatable. However, there is no clear consensus on the dimension of these disparities. In this paper, claims of geopolitical region disparities in labor market outcomes are investigated using survey data from Nigeria between 1996-1999. Both...
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This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced … declare low and high levels of happiness. Rising income inequality moderates the fall in happiness inequality, and may even … the happiness of all, it will at least harmonize the happiness of all, providing that income inequality does not grow too …
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output drop and weak governance, have led to a sharp rise in inequality among households. Sharp inequities have arisen not … the main driving forces of income inequality in Georgia, as it emerges from the analysis of the first representative … survey of incomes and expenditures of Georgian households in 1996-1997. The paper finds that the level of inequality for …
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The pool of early retirees is characterized by a large heterogeneity along several criteria. The present paper focuses on the key distinction between those in forced early retirement and those who retire early by individual choice. We start by estimating a retirement probit model for older...
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This paper develops a framework for studying individuals’ ideas about what constitutes just compensation for chief executive officers (CEOs) and reports estimates of just CEO pay and the principles guiding ideas of justice. The sample consists of students pursuing a Master of Business...
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If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledgeintensive activities and depends positively on intellectual property, a social planner which cares about income distribution may in principle want to use a reduction in Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)...
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