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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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Eugenics of inequality: UK and US fatherhood premia across the earnings distribution, 1974-2010
Cooke, Lynn Prince - 2014
equally. Income inequality among men has increased markedly since the 1970s, suggesting that differences among fathers have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335548
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Heterogeneous labor earning shock process in finite horizon
Rahman, Md. Arifur - 2017
This paper investigates the importance of heterogeneity in the labor earning shock processes. We analyze the earning shock process for both male and female workers in several countries. We argue that unlike time series analysis, in a life cycle model the forecasting horizon is finite and in...
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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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What is the Contribution of Intra-household Inequality to Overall Income Inequality? Evidence From Global Data, 1973-2013
Malghan, Deepak; Swaminathan, Hema - 2016
Intra-household inequality continues to remain a neglected corner despite renewed focus on income and wealth inequality …. Using the LIS micro data, we present evidence that this neglect is Equivalent to ignoring up to a third of total inequality …. For a wide range of countries and over four decades, we show that at least 30 per cent of total inequality is attributable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011725470
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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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