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We develop a model of child labour where poverty and inequality combine to determine policy response to child labour … wealth inequality, benefit from adopting child labour laws. This is because such laws commit an economy with either of those …
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incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of mobility by assuming both an aversion to inequality in permanent … inequality of income across individuals. Using panel data, we find that Canada’s tax system limits significantly the … effect of taxes can reach up to 23 percent of mean income at the higher values of inequality aversion that we use. Globally …
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incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of mobility by assuming both a social aversion to inequality in permanent … and on the inequality of income across individuals. Using panel data, we find that Canada’s tax system limits … income equalizing effect of taxes can reach up to 23 percent of mean income at the higher values of inequality aversion that …
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This paper studies the pro-poor growth in the Latino American Andean countries. We first present different definitions of pro-poorness and the related methods in order to generate the statistically robust results for classes of pro-poor measures. Also, we present the non anonymous pro-poor...
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Mexico and its effect on inequality and on polarization, and this during the period of 2002-2012. What distinguishes this …-tax income inequality. Based on our estimates, we find a significant increase in the progressivity of the fiscal system over time …, despite the high persistent levels of polarization and inequality in the country. Finally, we find that imposing the common …
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or that of the change in inequality on poverty. During the last few years, there was a growing interest to perform such …
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The paper explores different applications of the Shapley value for either inequality or poverty measures. We first … investigate the problem of source decomposition of inequality measures, the so-called additive income sources inequality games … income sources inequality games provide dual results compared with Chantreuil and Trannoy's ones. We also investigate the …
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ethically flexible tools that integrate these two strands. This is achieved using a measure of inequality that merges the well … transfers into a vertical equity effect and a loss of redistribution due to either classical HI or reranking. An inequality …-change approach and a money-metric cost-of-inequality approach are developed. The latter approach makes aggregate classical HI …
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and inequality. We show how, when the range of possible poverty lines is unbounded above, a robust ranking of absolute … as a robust ranking of inequality for any order of stochastic dominance. This interpretation is also valid when the … maximum poverty line is bounded and for certain orders of stochastic dominance, so long as social welfare and inequality …
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flexible tools that integrate these two strands. This is achieved using a measure of inequality that merges the well-known Gini … inequality-change approach and a money-metric cost-of-inequality approach are developed. The latter approach makes aggregate …
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