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This paper provides the first systematic analysis of the reasons why women endure longer unemployment durations than men in post-restructuring urban China using data obtained from a national representative household survey. Rejecting the view that women are less earnest than men in their desire...
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This study applies the regression-based inequality decomposition technique to explain poverty and inequality trends in …; disparities in income inequality between male- and female-headed households are largely explained by education, the share of … gender-based inequality in Cameroon. …
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This paper provides an ex ante assessment of taxation reforms being considered in Pakistan, in order to widen the tax base and rationalise the rate structure of different taxes. Amongst the main proposals, those focusing on sales tax and agricultural direct taxes seem relatively more attractive....
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attendance, poverty, inequality and adult labour supply. Our ex-ante estimated effects indicate that teenage school attendance … intensity and severity of poverty. Effects on poverty incidence and inequality are of small magnitude. Finally, the transfer may …
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DAD is designed to facilitate the analysis and the comparisons of social welfare, inequality, poverty and equity across …
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fluctuation and equally-distributed equivalent poverty gaps approaches for comparison. The latter approach introduces inequality …
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to reduce inequality. Interestingly, while overall public spending on education and health are most progressive in rural … and inequality actually increased between 1996 and 2001 than in urban areas. Overall, the current government policy can …
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This paper aims to analyse trends in poverty and inequality in seven African countries using an asset index constructed … overall inequality. Only in Zambia has overall inequality increased. Experiences in regards to trends in urban and rural … inequality are mixed. These results, however, should be interpreted with caution, given the various conceptual and methodological …
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that access to land does not help the poor escape poverty. Complementary to the inequality and poverty profiles constructed … inequality by multiple factor components. Also, we estimate a polychotomous ordered logic to investigate the risk of being …
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tariffs favours export-oriented sectors and all imports increase. Poverty falls in the economy while inequality hardly changes …
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