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unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health … indicates that global inequality would be underestimated if within-country inequality is not taken into account. Moreover …
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This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference … differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on …
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The techniques of simple random sampling are seldom appropriate in the empirical analysis of income distributions. Various types of weighting schemes are usually required either from the point of view of welfare-economic considerations (the mapping of household/family distributions into...
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This paper examines the interaction between migration policies of the host and source countries in the context of a model of guest-worker migration. For the host, the objective is to provide low-cost labor for its employers while avoiding illegal immigration. It optimizes over these objectives...
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The determinants of migrants? remittances are the subject of this study based on German SOEP data. For our analysis of … the probability and amount of remittances, we do not restrict ourselves on immigrants with a foreign citizenship, but … influences cross-border transfer behavior and (b) reconsidering the theoretical arguments since the motive for remittances might …
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We study the interplay of inequality and trust in a dynamic game, in which trust increases efficiency and thus allows …
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We consider the notion of welfare stigma à la Besley and Coate (1992b). This stigma is attributed to welfare claimants by society when they are perceived as undeserving in the sense that they falsely claim to be eligible for welfare benefits. However, due to imperfect information, this stigma...
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endowments of the factors that complement the schooling process. The paper explores the relationship between inequality of … opportunities, inequality of outcomes, and efficiency in human capital formation. Using numerical solutions we study how the …-preserving spread and a change in the support. The results suggest that a higher degree of inequality of opportunities is associated …
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can thus increase inequality in the long-run. Depending on the elasticity of substitution between capital and unskilled … show that including the transition period in the welfare evaluation lowers the inequality effects of capital tax reduc …
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by the Ramsey government not only increases aggregate efficiency, but it also decreases inequality. This result is in …
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