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. Increasing family income inequality drove much of the rise in neighbourhood inequality. Increased spatial economic segregation … growth, and a rise in neighbourhood income inequality. …
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are apparent?; 2) What happens to inequality of income among this group of children as they grow up?; 3) Are the same …
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A detailed longitudinal dataset is assembled containing annual performance and biographical data for every player over the entire history of professional major league baseball. The data are then aggregated to the team level for the period 1920-2009 in order to test whether teams built on a more...
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“Increasing Inequality is Unbalanced Growth: Evidence from North America†(CLSRN Working Paper no. 102) by CLSRN … still faced with clear evidence of growing income inequality in Canada, Veall outlines three policy priorities aimed to …
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We assess the evolution of consumption inequality in Canada over the years 1997 to 2009. We correct the imputation of … find that household-level consumption inequality measured by the Gini coefficient has increased from 0.251 to 0.275 over … 1997 to 2006, and then declined to 0.264 by 2009. Individual level inequality similarly increased from 0.199 in 1997 to 0 …
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Recent trends in inequality and poverty across Western Canada, a region known for its energy resources, seem to … correspond to movements in energy prices, with much of the rise in inequality and decline in poverty taking place during the … could potentially alter the aggregates of inequality and poverty, depending on how these gains are distributed across the …
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“Has the Canadian Labour Market Polarized?†(CLSRN Working Paper no. 133) analyses movements in wage inequality, and …
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In the energy-rich region of Western Canada, inequality rose over the past two decades, while poverty declined, begging … the question of whether the recent energy boom was a contributing factor. This study uses measures of inequality and … evidence shows that, overall, the boom increased inequality and decreased poverty. There are, however, a few notable cases …
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occupations than those in the middle since 1981. However, up to 2005, the wage pattern reflects a simple increase in inequality …
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Increasing inequality cannot be a long-run steady state – i.e. a trend that can continue indefinitely. Because the … United States, increasing economic instability is thus a necessary implication of increasing inequality. However, in Mexico …, increased female employment and declining birthrates have helped Mexico reduce inequality (albeit from a high level) in recent …
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