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We apply a partial identification analysis using comprehensive Norwegian register data to investigate the causal effect of father’s income on child income. We find a strong association between the incomes of fathers and children. The causal effect, however, equals at least 1% and at most 51%...
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Our hypothesis is that Nigeria is going through a process of economic polarization. An analysis of this type is new for Nigeria; the limited availability of comparable data has hindered an investigation that requires data series not too close in time. The present paper tries to overcome this...
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-benefit policies stabilized earnings losses. We then evaluate the impact on income-based poverty and inequality and the contribution of … inequality, and somewhat larger effects on the poverty gap due to lower relative earnings losses of the poor population at the …
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inequality as a social dynamic within the space of support and evaluate whether providing worseoff others corresponds to former … discriminatory practices under the apartheid regime. My results suggest that inequality has normalized a sense of support as …
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This study seeks to add to the research on inequality in least developed countries, namely in Mozambique, by measuring … and mapping indicators of horizontal wealth inequality along geographic regions and ethnolinguistic identities. Using … census data for 1997, 2007, and 2017, we identify possible intersecting inequalities, measuring between-group inequality …
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Overall income inequality in South Africa is very high, and inequality generated in the labour market is a key driver … of inequality. In this paper, I use the Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series, the General Household Surveys, and … administrative tax microdata to describe earnings inequality in South Africa. I estimate Gini coefficients, the variance of log …
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We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … Great Recession inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …
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Preserving environmental quality and addressing economic inequality both feature prominently in public discourse … consider interactions with the other. We synthesize theoretical mechanisms that underpin inequality-environment interlinkages … distribution of environmental amenities and dis-amenities is associated with income and wealth, second, how economic inequality …
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Does parental wealth inequality impact next generation labor income inequality? And does a tax on parental wealth …
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Understanding the relationship between income inequality and economic growth is of utmost importance to economists and … between inequality and growth via growth and inequality shocks for two large economies, China and the USA, for the years 1979 …- 2018. We find that a growth shock is inequality-increasing, and an inequality shock is growthreducing. We also find …
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