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Long-term effects of equal sharing: evidence from inheritance rules for land
Bartels, Charlotte; Jäger, Simon; Obergruber, Natalie - 2020
What are the long-term economic effects of a more equal distribution of wealth? We exploit variation in historical inheritance rules for land in Germany. In some German areas, inherited land was to be shared or divided equally among children, while in others land was ruled to be indivisible....
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The political U : new evidence on democracy and income
Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Frigerio, Marco - 2022
This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960-2018, we show that the causal relationship between political and economic development is U-shaped: "intermediate" political regimes significantly lead to inferior economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013412764
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The impact of Brazil's tax-benefit system on inequality and poverty
Immervoll, Herwig; Levy, Horacio; Nogueira, José … - 2006
the government budget on the income distribution in Brazil, and evaluates its efficiency and effectiveness in reducing … inequality and poverty. We present BRAHMS, a new tax-benefit microsimulation model for Brazil and illustrate its use by … policy makers in emerging and developing countries in particular. -- Brazil ; inequality ; poverty ; redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003388216
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Inequality and employment in a dual economy : enforcement of labor regulation in Brazil
Almeida, Rita (contributor); Carneiro, Pedro (contributor) - 2007
, using city level data from Brazil. We find that stricter enforcement (affecting the payment of mandated benefits to formal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561664
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Ageing poorly? : accounting for the decline in earnings inequality in Brazil, 1995-2012
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Firpo, Sérgio Pinheiro; … - 2017
The Gini coefficient of labor earnings in Brazil fell by nearly a fifth between 1995 and 2012, from 0.50 to 0.41. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636391
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Intergenerational mobility in the land of inequality
Britto, Diogo G. C.; Fonseca, Alexandre; Pinotti, Paolo; … - 2022
We provide the first estimates of intergenerational income mobility for a developing country, namely Brazil. We measure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414601
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Human capital persistence and development
Rocha, Rudi; Ferraz, Claudio; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2015
particular regions of Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th century. We show that municipalities that received settlements …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283193
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The great happiness moderation
Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2012
This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced positive income growth over the last forty years, in particular in developed countries. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009575162
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Does development reduce migration?
Clemens, Michael A. - 2014
The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those countries, an idea that captivates policymakers in international aid and trade diplomacy. A lengthy literature and recent data suggest something quite different: that over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010423766
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The capability threshold : re-examining the definition of the middle class in an unequal developing country
Burger, Ronelle; McAravey, Camren; Berg, Servaas van der - 2015
In a polarised and highly unequal country such as South Africa, it is unlikely that a definition of the middle class that is based on an income threshold will adequately capture the political and social meanings of being middle class. We therefore propose a multi-dimensional definition, rooted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388311