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The unequal impact of the COVID pandemic : theory and evidence on health and economic outcomes for different income groups
Aubert, Cécile; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Nguyen, Manh-Hung - 2022
This paper studies how wealth and health inequalities have interacted with the Covid-19 epidemic in a way that has … reinforced inequalities in income, savings, epidemic risk and even individual preventive behaviors. We present in more detail two … loosing their income because of contamination. Data on six countries confirm a disproportionate impact of the epidemic on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013273921
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Does the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affect the poor? : evidence from a six-country survey
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Toan Luu Duc Huynh; Nguyen, Manh-Hung - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havocs on economies around the world. Yet, barely any evidence currently exists on the distributional impacts of the pandemic. We provide the first study that offers new theoretical and empirical evidence on the distributional impacts of the pandemic on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012237735
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Income inequality in Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador : different reasons
Aristizábal-Ramirez, Maria; Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; … - 2015
This paper analyzes the individual-level determinants of wage inequality for Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador from 2001 … regressions and decompositions of standard Gini indices. Although popular opinion and standard Gini indices suggest Colombia to …'s or Ecuador's. In 2010, educational achievement explains over 10.9 percent of the Gini score in Colombia, 6.3 percent in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307897
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Two stories of wage dynamics in Latin America : different policies, different outcomes
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Carvajal-Osorio, Luis C. - 2018
This article explores the variation in the wage distributions of two Latin American countries, Bolivia and Colombia …, especially benefiting the least skilled workers and the informal sector. On the other hand, the wage distribution in Colombia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872217
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The gender gap in income and the COVID-19 pandemic
Doorley, Karina; O'Donoghue, Cathal; Sologon, Denisa M. - 2021
The gender income gap is large and well documented for many countries. Recent research shows that it is mainly driven by differences in working patterns between men and women, but also by wage differences. The tax-benefit system cushions the gender income gap by redistributing between men and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518063
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The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on socioeconomic inequality in psychological distress in the UK: an update
Gao, Xiaoying; Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2021
This paper extends the earlier work of Davillas and Jones (2021) on socioeconomic inequality in mental health, measured by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), to include the second national lockdown up to March 2021.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012651380
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Unmet health care need and income-related horizontal equity in access during the COVID-19 pandemic
Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2020
Using monthly data from the Understanding Society (UKHLS) COVID-19 Survey we analyse the evolution of unmet need and assess how the UK health care system performed against the norm of horizontal equity in health care access during the first wave of COVID-19 wave. Unmet need was most evident for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322233
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Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the CARES Act on earnings and inequality
Cortes, Guido Matias; Forsythe, Eliza - 2020
Using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), we show that the COVID-19 pandemic led to a loss of aggregate real labor earnings of more than $250 billion between March and July 2020. By exploiting the panel structure of the CPS, we show that the decline in aggregate earnings was entirely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012284653
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Social stability challenged: pandemics, inequality and policy responses
Perugini, Cristiano; Vladisavljević, Marko - 2020
inequality and poverty and that the magnitude of the change is larger in more unequal countries. Such a cumulative process shapes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214250
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Earnings losses and the role of the welfare state during the COVID-19 pandemic : evidence from Sweden
Adermon, Adrian; Laun, Lisa; Lind, Patrik; Olsson, Martin; … - 2022
Many governments introduced temporary adjustments to counter the economic and health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. We study the importance of already existing government transfers and pandemic measures to mitigate individual income losses during the pandemic in Sweden using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013429242