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exemptions. Pensions are more equally distributed than income received from employment, and intra-cohort inequality does not seem … to be a more convincing explanation. What is the impact of differential taxation on the inequality between retirees and …
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This article explores the influence of social background and social situation on the smoking career. This study is based on a sample of 4.473 individuals who answered the 2006 French Health, Health Care and Insurance Survey. The results of a non-parametric analysis and of a stratified Cox model...
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Financial transfers from parents to their adult children are a growing trend in contemporary societies, and this study investigates the relation of those transfers to their beneficiaries' health in France. In the 2005 nationally representative Gender and Generation Survey, nearly 6% of the...
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France. The multi-decomposition of an inequality measure allows us to put into perspective the role of social spending and …. However, we question the extent to which this multidimensional inequality indicator is a relevant tool for the study of … intergenerational inequalities. Does the multidimensional inequality indicator allow to deliver conclusions regarding retirement …
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In this paper, using an original survey, we analyze the distributional impact of international migration across two regions of Algeria. A semi-parametric descriptive analysis is comple- mented with a parametric model. Remittances do not significantly change the Gini coefficient in nearly any of...
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’ terms but not in either relative or ‘strong absolute’ terms, owing to the increase in inequality. This can be explained …
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Within a 2 Country-4 Region setting we study the impact of a reduction in international transport costs over the localisation of firms inside countries.We find that even when countries are symmetrical, but as long as regions within countries are not entirely identical (whatever the differences),...
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This paper studies the impact of trade liberalization and international trade on household income inequality and … more exposed to tariff cuts experienced smaller reductions in household poverty and inequality. If significance of results … on Brazilian states depends on the choice of poverty and inequality indicators, robust and contrasting results emerge …
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In this paper, a novel approach is implemented to quantify the effects on poverty and inequality of the financial …
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Since 2004, the Government of Senegal has adopted an accelerated growth program in the aim o reducing poverty by half before 2015 (Millennium Development Goal). This article criticizes thi program by analysing his pro-poor components. It shows that policies are too much oriented toward sectors...
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