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regulation affects income inequality and service quality. Using individual-level data from the German microcensus for the years … increase in inequality is associated with a deterioration of service quality. The reform reduced average scores of a peer …
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We analyze the effects of R&D-driven automation on economic growth, education, and inequality when high-skilled workers …-driven growth leads to an increasing population share of college graduates, increasing income and wealth inequality, and a declining …
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skill premium and increasing inequality. We develop a measure for reshoring activity at the macro-level and, using data from …
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Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from … income inequality and government size, measured as the government expenditure share in GDP. Using a novel instrument - the … the true role of the government in attenuating income inequality. The estimated relationship between income inequality and …
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In this paper we use a large official employer-employee dataset, which includes almost the whole universe of business firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates' wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non-parametric matching exercise, we pay particular attention to...
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This study reexamines the relationship between economic growth and inequality, challenging the conventional view that … regards inequality solely as an impediment to development. While recognizing the essential role of economic growth in … growth. We explore how inequality interplays with pressing global challenges like climate change and pandemics, areas that …
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While there is a growing literature on the impact of climate and weather-related events on migration, little is known about the mitigating effect of different policies directed to the agricultural sector, or aimed at insuring against environmental disasters. This paper uses state-level data on...
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Brain drain BD, human capital h, and inequality's institutional impact is examined in a model where a rent …-shaped function of h, with minimum at 0 < h1 < 1; iii) the likelihood that Q improves with BD falls with international inequality; iv …) the likelihood that Q improves with h falls with domestic inequality; v) the likelihood Q improves with h falls (rises …
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To describe and understand the economic inequality in a given so- ciety, it is necessary to understand intra …-household inequality. House- holds can hide important inequalities, but can also be essential units for redistribution in society. This … for poverty and inequality measurement. Methods that assign each household member a per-adult share of household …
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addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …
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