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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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Redistributive outcome of sickness insurance: An empirical study of social insurance institutions
Khan, Jahangir; Jansson, Bjarne - 2006
-coefficients were used for measuring earnings inequality. Relative changes in earnings inequality for sickness benefits were explained …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335439
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Disentangling income inequality and the redistributive effect of taxes and transfers in 20 LIS countries over time
Caminada, Koen; Goudswaard, Kees; Wang, Chen - 2012
redistribution in a comparative setting. We use micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study to examine household market inequality … increase in primary household inequality in all 20 countries over the last 25 years (except Ireland). In most countries, the … income inequality, although they appear to have become less effective in doing so since the mid-1990s. We find that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335525
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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 …
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