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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...
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paid work hours are negatively correlated with life satisfaction, our results suggest that inequality of well-being may … have increased even more than inequality of income over recent decades. While some policy attention has been directed at …
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premium levels and changes within countries. For the literature on income inequality, these findings imply the need to pay …
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social policy, work, family, and gender inequality. Motivated by limitations of prior research, we analyze the relationship …
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this study I aim to examine the tax system's modification of horizontal income inequality between the six most prevalent … Luxembourg Income Study (LIS). I estimate pre- and post-fiscal income inequality measured as between-family-type Theil indices …. Using linear regression, I examine the association of the percentage change in inequality and the prevalence of family type …
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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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