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Does the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affect the poor? : evidence from a six-country survey

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Toan Luu Duc Huynh; Nguyen, Manh-Hung - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havocs on economies around the world. Yet, much needs to be learnt on the distributional impacts of the pandemic. We contribute new theoretical and empirical evidence on the distributional impacts of the pandemic on different income groups in a multi-country...

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Monetary compensation schemes during the COVID-19 pandemic : implications for household incomes, liquidity constraints and consumption across the EU

Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; Figari, Francesco; … - 2022

This paper analyses the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on household disposable income and household demand in the European Union (EU), making use of the EU microsimulation model EUROMOD and nowcasting techniques. We show evidence of heterogeneity in the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the...

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Who lost the most? : distributive effects of COVID-19 pandemic

Aina, Carmen; Brunetti, Irene; Mussida, Chiara; … - 2021

This paper investigates what happened to the wage distribution in Italy during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. It shows which categories of workers and economic sectors have suffered more than others and to what extent both the actual level of smart-working and the ability to Working...

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Unmet health care need and income-related horizontal equity in access during the COVID-19 pandemic

Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2020

Using monthly data from the Understanding Society (UKHLS) COVID-19 Survey we analyse the evolution of unmet need and assess how the UK health care system performed against the norm of horizontal equity in health care access during the first wave of COVID-19 wave. Unmet need was most evident for...

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Trends and drivers of inequality : recent evidence from Vietnam

Trang Huyen Dang; Cuong Viet Nguyen; Tung Duc Phung - 2022

income and poverty. This implies that high-income people are more likely to benefit from economic growth, especially in …

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An ex-ante assessment on poverty and cash transfer benefits in Viet Nam under the Covid-19 pandemic

Long Thanh Giang; Kikkawa, Aiko; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2021

poverty status of the Vietnamese households, and then simulated the impact of cash transfer programs by the government of … Vietnam on the income and poverty status of households. Our simulations suggest that COVID-19 leads to substantial reduction …-poor and helps bring about 1.2 million people out of poverty. The transfers would be particularly pro-poor for ethnic minority …

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Measuring welfare, inequality and poverty with ordinal variables

Silber, Jacques; Yalonetzky, Gastón - 2021

addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

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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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Inequality and support for government responses to COVID-19

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Malesky, Edmund; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2020

Despite a rich literature studying the impact of inequality on policy outcomes, there has been limited effort to bring these insights into the debates about comparative support for government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. We fill in this gap by analyzing rich survey data from six countries...

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Schooling forsaken : education and migration

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2020

We examine the phenomenon of forsaken schooling resulting from opportunities abroad. The brain-drain/gain literature takes as its starting point the migration of educated/professional labor from poor origin countries to richer host countries. While high-skilled emigration is troubling, even more...

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