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Time use and time budgets: Improvements, future challenges and recommendations

Merz, Joachim - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2009

; division of labour; allocation of time for household work; the estimation of the value of household production; transportation …

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Polarization, growth and social policy. The case of Israel, 1997 to 2008

García-Fernández, Rosa; Gottlieb, Daniel; … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011

In this paper we apply the methodology developed by García-Fernández and Palacios-González (2008,2009) based on multiresolution analysis, to the measurement of polarization to Israeli income data over the past decade. This methodology allows us, in contrast to other polarization measures, to...

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Reconsidering the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis: the trade off between environment and welfare

Cantore, Nicola - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2005

Past climate change literature paid great attention to the welfare analysis of international agreements that stabilize emissions over time on the basis of the New Welfare Economics approach claiming “objective” measures of well-being and excluding interpersonal comparisons. In this paper, by...

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The impact of sex-selective abortion technology on the evolution of postnatal gender-bias conventions

Echávarri, Rebeca A. - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2007

A substantial body of research presents the absence of control on the family sex-composition as one of the main reasons for raising neglected young girls in context of rooted son preference. Therefore, one expects that egalitarian intra-family distributions of survival resources are more...

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Why are child poverty rates so persistently high in Spain?

Gradín, Carlos; Cantó, Olga - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2009

for unobserved heterogeneity and initial conditions using the European Community Household Panel. Our results show … differential effects of several individual and household characteristics on the probability of being poor for households with and …

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Life satisfaction and household production in a collective model: Evidence from Italy

Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Rapallini, Chiara - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2009

The model takes into account the household production and self reported information is interpreted in relation with the … household full income and the relevance of the wages in this bargaining process. We find also that non strictly economic … individual variables and some household characteristics are important in explaining the Italian sharing rule. …

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The Income Lever and the Allocation of Aid

Ceriani, Lidia; Verme, Paolo - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013

The paper develops a concept and a measure of the monetary capacity of a country to reduce its own poverty and shows how these tools can be used to guide budget allocations or the distribution of Aid. We call this concept the income lever and define it as the relation between the welfare of the...

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Is it all about the tails? The Palma measure of income inequality

Cobham, Alex; Sumner, Andrew - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013

The ``Palma'' is the ratio of national income shares of the top 10 percent of households to the bottom 40 percent, reflecting Gabriel Palma's observation of the stability of the ``middle'' 50 percent share of income across countries so that distribution is largely a question of the tails. In...

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The impact of taxes and social spending on inequality and poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay: An overview

Lustig, Nora; Amábile, Florencia; Bucheli, Marisa; … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013

, and taxes? Standard fiscal incidence analyses applied to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay using a … amounts in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay but less so in Bolivia, Mexico, and Peru. While direct taxes are progressive, the …

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Fiscal policy and income redistribution in Latin America: Challenging the conventional wisdom

Lustig, Nora - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011

upper quintile. Through an in-depth fiscal incidence analysis applied to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru we … GDP, whereas in Mexico and Peru they are around 20 percent. Social spending (excluding contributory pensions) as a share …) for Argentina and slightly so for Bolivia and Mexico. In Brazil and Peru social spending is progressive in relative terms …

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