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Growth, income distribution, and well-being : comparisons across space and time

Grün, Carola; Klasen, Stephan - 2003

We use several well-being measures that combine average income with a measure of inequality to undertake international, intertemporal, and global comparisons of well-being. The conclusions emerging from the analysis are that our well-being measures drastically change our impression of levels of...

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(Re-)distribution of personal incomes, education and economic performance across countries

Rehme, Günther - 2002

In many OECD countries income inequality has risen, but surprisingly redistribution as well. The theory attributes this partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U-shaped way on education. To maintain a given level...

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Optimal redistribution : rising inequality vs. rising living standards

Ferriere, Axelle; Grübener, Philipp; Sachs, Dominik - 2024

Over the last decades, the United States has experienced a large increase in, both, income inequality and living standards. The workhorse models of optimal income taxation call for more redistribution as inequality rises. By contrast, living standards play no role for taxes and transfers in...

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Direct distribution of rents and the resource curse in Iran : a micro-econometric analysis

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Habibpour, Mohammad - 2014

tax have a significant negative effect on the household GINI index and on poverty. We also examine three alternative …

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Measuring unfair inequality : reconciling equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty

Hufe, Paul; Kanbur, Ravi; Peichl, Andreas - 2018

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

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Status seeking behavior of the poor : a study on India

Marjit, Sugata; Santra, Sattwik; Hati, Koushik Kumar - 2018

This paper is the first attempt towards directly testing the existence of status seeking behavior of the poor for a developing economy, India, with the help of a large dataset. The paper empirically validates status consciousness among the relatively poor for both rural and urban areas across...

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The effect of international sanctions on the size of the middle class in Iran

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Habibi, Nader - 2024

This study examines the impact of international economic sanctions, imposed on Iran due to its nuclear program, on the development of the middle class. Specifically, it investigates how the middle class in Iran would have developed in the absence of these sanctions post-2012. To address this...

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Is there a nonlinear relationship between economic growth and inequality? : theory and lessons from ASEAN, People Republic of China and India

Gangopadhyay, Partha; Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2015

In view of rising inequality in fast growing Asian developing countries, it is important to study the relationship between economic growth and income inequity. We develop a simple model to establish that economic growth and inequality can bear a complex and non-linear relationship if policy...

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Income dependent equivalence scales, inequality, and poverty

Dudel, Christian; Garbuszus, Jan Marvin; Ott, Notburga; … - 2015

Most equivalence scales which are applied in research on poverty and inequality do not depend on income, although there … differing assessments of poverty and inequality under quite general conditions. German microdata will be used to demonstrate and …

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All about the giants : probing the influences on growth and income inequality at the end of the 20th century

Berry, R. Albert; Serieux, John - 2003

persons for the years 1980, 1990 and 2000, and world poverty rates for the same years. It also presents the results of a … growth and changes in global income inequality and poverty. The authors find that rapid growth in China (despite a downward … inequality. The impact of these twocountries is similarly critical with respect to global poverty reduction. …

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