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The rise of China's global middle class in international perspective
Sicular, Terry; Yang, Xiuna; Gustafsson, Björn - 2021
Defining the 'global middle class' as being neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate the size of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012588683
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The global inequality boomerang
Kanbur, Ravi; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo; Sumner, Andrew - 2022
In this paper we argue that the decline in global inequality over the last decades has spurred a 'sunshine' narrative of falling global inequality that has been rather oversold, in the sense, we argue, it is likely to be temporary. We argue the decline in global inequality will reverse due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170291
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Tony Atkinson's new book, Measuring Poverty around the World : some further reflections
Brandolini, Andrea; Micklewright, John - 2020
parallel developments in the World Bank's measurement of global poverty that were stimulated by the report of the Commission on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012157324
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The effect of firm-level investment on inequality and poverty around the world
Tosun, Mehmet Serkan; Watson, Ethan D.; Yildiz, Serhat - 2022
This paper investigates the effect of firm-level investment on the levels of income inequality and poverty. Using a sample of firms from 87 countries for the period from 1979 to 2018, we document that firm-level investment is negatively associated with various measures of income inequality. This...
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Globalization and inequality in Latin America
Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Kovak, Brian K. - 2023
We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on … dimensions of inequality, and developing new methodologies to capture the many facets of globalization's relationship to … that focus on distinct aspects of globalization's relationship to inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014326202
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Appraising cross-national income inequality databases : an introduction
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Lustig, Nora; Teles, Daniel - 2015
(SEDLAC). Two are based on secondary sources: "All the Ginis" (ATG) and the World Income Inequality Database (WIID); and one … is generated entirely through multiple-imputation methods: the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIID …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376319
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Multidimensional affluence in income and wealth in the Eurozone : a cross-country comparison using the HFCS
Kontbay-Busun, Sine; Peichl, Andreas - 2015
This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a multidimensional setting by considering the joint...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288530
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Better off? : distributional comparisons for ordinal data about personal well-being
Jenkins, Stephen - 2019
distributions. The methods are illustrated using data from the World Values Survey. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140082
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Inequality comparisons with ordinal data
Jenkins, Stephen - 2019
Non-intersection of appropriately-defined Generalized Lorenz (GL) curves is equivalent to a unanimous ranking of distributions of ordinal data by all Cowell and Flachaire (Economica 2017) indices of inequality and by a new index based on GL curve areas. Comparisons of life satisfaction...
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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