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This paper investigates the relationship between the capital share in national income and personal income inequality … income shares with a broader measure of inequality (Gini coefficient), the positive relationship re-mains but becomes …
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When is one distribution (of income, consumption, or some other economic variable) more equal or better than another? This question has proven difficult to answer in situations where distribution functions intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker criteria...
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widely used operational definition – the growth rate in the average income of the poorest 40 percent of a country … indicators, including social welfare, poverty, inequality, and mobility, and reviews some of its design shortcomings. The paper …
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To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality … strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …
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This paper examines how inequality could be tackled through structural transformation using unit record data from the … Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for Africa. Results suggest inequality between countries tends to be higher when the share of …' contributions to employment or value-added of the gross domestic product (GDP). On the other hand, within-country inequality tends …
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When is one distribution (of income, consumption, or some other economic variable) more equal or better than another? This question has proven difficult to answer in situations where distribution functions intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker criteria...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884192
inequality as the price of unobserved skills (the standard deviation of the residuals) into their decomposition equation. …
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If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledgeintensive activities and depends positively on intellectual property, a social planner which cares about income distribution may in principle want to use a reduction in Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)...
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This paper addresses the design of the machinery of collective bargaining from the perspective of the needs of microeconomic and macroeconomic flexibility. In the former context, greater attention is given over to enterprise flexibility than external adjustment. In the latter context, close...
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for global inequality. We develop and parameterize a two-sector, two-class, world economy model that endogenizes education … and mobility decisions, population growth, and income disparities across and within countries. First, our static … experiments reveal that the geography of skills matters for global inequality. Low access to education and sectoral misallocation …
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