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We examine the causes for rising income inequality in Europe’s most populous economy. From 2000 to 2006, Germany … experienced an unprecedented rise in net equivalized income inequality and poverty. At the same time, unemployment rose to record …. Other factors that possibly contributed to the rise in income inequality were changes in the tax system, changes in the …
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-to-date picture of inequality and poverty by subgroup in South Korea which helps targeting particularly vulnerable groups. Overall …, while inequality in disposable income is found to be often substantial, strong savings preferences of richer households lead … to relatively low consumption inequality. Households headed by elderly, uneducated, divorced or widowed, females and …
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over the period 2005/2006 to 2010/11. While income inequality considerably increased in the years before 2005/2006, this … of inequality in wage incomes after 2005/2006. Our results suggest that, despite further increases in wage inequality …, inequality in equivalized net incomes did not increase further after 2005/2006 because increased within-year employment …
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We propose a complete framework for model-free difference-in-differences analysis with covariates, where model-free means data-driven, in particular nonparametric estimation and testing, variable and scale choice. We start with searching for the preferred data setup by simultaneously choosing...
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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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Understanding the economic and social effects of the recent global trends of rising market concentration and market power has become a policy priority. To fill this knowledge gap, this paper introduces a simple simulation method, the Welfare and Competition tool (WELCOM), to estimate with...
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examines in detail their distributional impact and finds that they led to increases in inequality and (relative) poverty. The … result is stronger in the case of inequality indices that are relatively more sensitive to changes close to the bottom of the …
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Survey under-coverage of top incomes leads to bias in survey-based estimates of overall income inequality. Using income … how it affects estimates of overall income inequality. More generally, we assess whether the SPI adjustment is fit for …
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Income inequality is on the rise, and everyone, from President Obama and Pope Francis to Prince Charles and Standard … is as true in Canada as it is in almost all of the other rich countries where inequality has risen. In this paper I tell … two stories about inequality – one from the perspective of those who feel it is not a problem worth the worry, and the …
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effects of the crisis on the level and the structure of aggregate inequality and poverty using the data of EU-SILC for the … period 2007–2014. The results show that inequality rose but the magnitude of the change varies across indices. The recorded … contribution of disparities between educational groups to aggregate inequality declined while that of disparities between socio …
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