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Poverty in Russia: A Bird's-Eye View of Trends and Dynamics in the Past Quarter of Century

Abanokova, Kseniya; Dang, Hai-Anh H. - 2021

Hardly any recent study exists that broadly reviews poverty trends over time for Russia. Analyzing the Russian … Longitudinal Monitoring Surveys between 1994 and 2019, we offer an updated review of poverty trends and dynamics for the country … over the past quarter of century. We find that poverty has been steadily decreasing, with most of the poor having a …

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Measuring Poverty Dynamics with Synthetic Panels Based on Repeated Cross-Sections

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter F. - 2022

multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with …

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Does money change who you are? Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of wage increases on personality

Ayaita, Adam - 2022

Using the 2015 introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany as a quasi-experiment, I investigate the effects of wage increases on personality. The degree to which each worker's wage is intended to be affected by the reform is used as an instrument for the relative increase in the worker's...

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Does the choice of well-being measure matter empirically? An illustration with German data

Decancq, Koen; Neumann, Dirk - 2014

We discuss and compare five measures of individual well-being, namely income, an objective composite well-being index, a measure of subjective well-being, equivalent income, and a well-being measure based on the von Neumann-Morgenstern utilities of the individuals. After examining the...

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Dynamics of income rank volatility: Evidence from Germany and the US

Chauvel, Louis; Hartung, Anne; Palmisano, Flaviana - 2017

This paper presents a methodology for comparing income rank volatility profiles over time and across distributions. While most of the existing measures are affected by changes in marginal distributions, this paper proposes a framework that is based on individuals' relative positions in the...

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The evolution of inequality in Latin America in the 21st century: What are the patterns, drivers and causes?

Bogliacino, Francesco; Rojas Lozano, Daniel - 2017

In this article, we show the evolution of inequality for the largest economies of the Latin American region in the 21st … century, with separate consideration of income and wealth. We analyse the drivers of the changes in inequality and possible …

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Income changes do not influence political participation: Evidence from comparative panel data

Jungkunz, Sebastian; Marx, Paul - 2021

latent-growth-curve modeling based on household panels show that participatory inequality by parental income is already large … research on (political) inequality in youth and childhood. …

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Assessing gender gaps in employment and earnings in Africa: the case of Eswatini

Brixiová Schwidrowski, Zuzana; Imai, Susumu; Kangoye, … - 2021

Persistent gender gaps characterize labor markets in many African countries. Utilizing Eswatini's first three labor market surveys (conducted in 2007, 2010, and 2013), this paper provides first systematic evidence on the country's gender gaps in employment and earnings. We find that women have...

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Income mobility

Jäntti, Markus; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2013

We survey the literature on income mobility, aiming to provide an integrated discussion of mobility within- and between-generations. We review mobility concepts, descriptive devices, measurement methods, data sources, and recent empirical evidence.

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The Effect of Self-Employment on Income Inequality

Schneck, Stefan - 2018

influence function regression of inequality measures corroborate that self-employment is a source of income inequality in the …

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