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Latin American countries have some of the highest levels of income inequality in the world. However, earnings inequality significantly changed over the last three decades, increasing during the 1980s and 1990s, declining sharply in the 2000s, and stagnating or even increasing in some countries...
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Die Unterschiede zwischen Ost- und Westdeutschland sind auch noch 30 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall ein Thema, das sich vor allem populistische Parteien zunutze machen. Wie groß sind die wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Disparitäten in Deutschland wirklich? Ist der Aufholprozess ins Stocken geraten?...
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Judith Niehues und Maximilian Stockhausen, Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft, Köln, weisen darauf hin, dass in der Wahrnehmung der Bevölkerungsmehrheit die Ungleichheit in Einkommen und Vermögen seit Jahren steigt. Ein Abgleich mit den verfügbaren Daten zeige jedoch, dass die Daten weder ein...
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The Greek crisis was the deepest and longest ever recorded in an OECD country in the postwar period. Output declined by over a quarter and disposable income by more than 40%, while the unemployment rate exceeded 27%. The paper explores the effects of the crisis on the level and the structure of...
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Income inequality is on the rise, and everyone, from President Obama and Pope Francis to Prince Charles and Standard & Poor's, is talking about it. But these conversations about what are arguably the most significant changes in the distribution of incomes and earnings since the 1940s are leading...
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Using nationally representative longitudinal survey, we examine the income mobility among rural (urban) Indian households over 1993-2004 and 2004-2011 (2004-2011). We find mobility estimates that mirror the social hierarchy: Forward Hindu Caste (FHC) households experienced the highest (lowest)...
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Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se, but that its underlying sources need to be taken...
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Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se, but that its underlying sources need to be taken...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915714
This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net household income are derived. The BHPS net household income...
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This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty in China by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) which is widely used by policy makers, international agencies and researchers. Unlike many other countries, China until...
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