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Elite occupations are characterised by the magnitude of income accumulation which has been particularly exacerbated in …
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judgements implicit in tax and transfer policy provides a fresh perspective on the evolution of income inequality and …
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Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from … the problem of endogeneity of government size with respect to the distribution of income. Studying 30 European countries … income inequality and government size, measured as the government expenditure share in GDP. Using a novel instrument – the …
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Longitudinal Monitoring Surveys over the past two decades spanning this transition. We find rising income levels and decreasing … staying in the formal sector is statistically significantly associated with reduced downward mobility and increased income … growth. However, a similar transition from the private sector to the public sector is negatively associated with income …
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labour income distribution in Italy. Results show that increasing WFH attitudes of occupations would lead to a rise of wage …
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The share of women in the top 1% of the UK’s income distribution has been growing over the last two decades (as in … their greater increases (relative to men) in the number of years spent in full-time education. Although most top income …
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distribution and poverty indices that are sensitive to the distribution of income among the poor. …
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This chapter provides the historical context for the past half-century in Europe focusing specifically on the link between migration and economic development and inequality. The literature review suggests that there are several channels through which migration affects economic inequality between...
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The key challenge in making distributional comparisons with ordinal data is the lack of commensurability of the distances between the ordered categories. This chapter provides a critical review of the most recent theoretical developments addressing this challenge and providing methods for...
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We apply the Kakwani approach to decomposing redistributive effect into average rate, progressivity, and reranking components using yearly UK data covering 1977-2018. We examine cash and in-kind benefits, and direct and indirect taxes. In addition, we highlight an empirical implementation issue...
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