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should drive down the skill premium and reduce inequality. Within the limitations of any exercise based on simulations, this … paper finds that the recently observed reduction in inequality in Latin America may continue. Building on counterfactual … scenarios projecting economic and demographic (including age and education) growth, the paper also highlights that by 2030 the …
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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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contributes to resilience in low-resource environments. In designing interventions to improve outcomes for disadvantaged children …
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This paper provides some elements to explain the observed takeover in some urban areas of a new kind of elite associated with new economy jobs, also known as "bourgeois bohème" (bobos). This takeover has been associated with greater investment in urban amenities and "clean" means of transport,...
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, commuting behavior, wages, land use and land rents for 3000 ZIP-codes in the Netherlands and for three levels of education …
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The segregation of students by socioeconomic status has been on the rise in American public education between schools …
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Defining the 'global middle class' as being neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate the size of the global middle class in China and 33 other countries and analyze China's expanding middle class in international perspective. China's global middle class has grown rapidly and has...
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attaining the middle class reveals the importance of an individual's circumstances at birth. Parents' education and occupation …
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only slightly and this is attributed to sluggish labour market growth and low quality of education. We find that the middle …
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Empirical evidence for the U.S. suggests that illicit consumption of opioids increases in association with socio-economic deprivation of the middle-class. To explore the underlying mechanisms, we set up a task-based labor market model with endogenous mental health status and a health care...
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