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Evolution of inequality in Nigeria : a tale of falling inequality, rising poverty and regional heterogeneity
Odozi, John Chiwuzulum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2022
Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only the upper class has benefited from economic growth in Nigeria over time. The disconnect between these findings and anecdotal evidence, and the limitation in how inequality was...
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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 to 2010. Using a rich annual data set from surveys in all three countries, we analyze wages both using conventional wage regressions and decompositions of standard Gini indices....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307897
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Inequality of opportunity in household income, China 2002-2018
Yang, Xiuna; Gustafsson, Björn; Sicular, Terry - 2021
This study contributes to the literature on inequality of opportunity (IOp) in China by covering a longer and more … on income inequality among working-age persons. Between the years of study, IOp in China declined, especially between … had increased. We find that IOp is larger among those born in rural than urban China. Furthermore, IOP's contribution to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550223
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Regional income stratification in unified Germany using a Gini decomposition approach
Frick, Joachim R. (contributor); Goebel, Jan (contributor) - 2005
This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a decomposition of the GINI index which yields the obligatory between- and within-group components as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003227214
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Social spending generosity and income inequality: a dynamic panel approach
Niehues, Judith - 2010
This paper explores if more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if redistributive outcomes are offset by behavioral disincentive effects. To account for the inherent endogeneity of social policies with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System GMM...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009007489
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Pareto models, top incomes, and recent trends in UK income inequality
Jenkins, Stephen - 2016
I determine UK income inequality levels and trends by combining inequality estimates from tax return data (for the 'rich') and household survey data (for the 'non-rich'), taking advantage of the better coverage of top incomes in tax return data (which I demonstrate) and creating income variables...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521081
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(In)equality and (in)justice
Jasso, Guillermina - 2016
Understanding the exact connection between inequality and justice is important because justice is classically regarded as the first line of defense against self-interest and inequality. Absent a strong and clear link between inequality and justice, the sense of justice would not awaken to exert...
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World income inequality databases : an assessment of WIID and SWIID
Jenkins, Stephen - 2014
This article assesses two secondary data compilations about income inequality - the World Income Inequality Database (WIIDv2c), and the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIIDv4.0) which is based on WIID but with all observations multiply-imputed. WIID and SWIID are convenient and...
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Long term trends in fair and unfair inequality in the United States
Hussey, Andrew; Jetter, Michael - 2014
This paper analyzes the microeconomic sources of wage inequality in the United States from 1967-2012. Decomposing inequality into factors categorized by degree of personal responsibility, we find that education is able to explain more than twice as much of inequality today as 45 years ago....
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Capital shares and income inequality : evidence from the long run
Bengtsson, Erik; Waldenström, Daniel - 2015
This paper investigates the relationship between the capital share in national income and personal income inequality over the long run. Using a new historical cross-country database on capital shares in 19 countries and data from the World Wealth and Income Database, we find strong long-run...
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