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The Global Consumption and Income Project (GCIP): An Overview
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay G. - 2016
the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011725447
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A new and easy-to-use measure of literacy, its axiomatic properties and an application
Basu, Kaushik; Lee, Travis - 2008
It can be argued that just as there are different kinds of literacy, there are different kinds of illiteracy. A proximate illiterate, i.e. an illiterate who has easy access to a literate person, is clearly better off than someone without such access. The existing literature that takes account of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292065
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The Global Consumption and Income Project (GCIP): An introduction and preliminary findings
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay G. - 2014
consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335799
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How redistributive policies reduce market inequality: Education premiums in 22 OECD countries
Weisstanner, David; Armingeon, Klaus - 2018
premium levels and changes within countries. For the literature on income inequality, these findings imply the need to pay …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060319
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Diverging destinies in international perspective: Education, single motherhood, and child poverty
Härkönen, Juho - 2017
social inequality. In this study, I used data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) to describe trends in educational … amplify differences in child poverty by maternal education. The prevalence of single motherhood has increased in almost all of … particularly among the least educated. Educational differences in single motherhood can amplify differences in child poverty by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011725504