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The atlas of inequality aversion: Theory and empirical evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study Database
Kot, Stanisław Maciej; Paradowski, Piotr R. - 2022
In the distributive analysis, the constant relative inequality aversion utility function is a standard tool for ethical … judgements of income distributions. The sole parameter ε of this function expresses a society's aversion to inequality. However … inequality aversion utility function using datasets available from the Luxembourg Income Study Database. We utilise the method of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013467156
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Globalisation, technological progress and changes in regulations and institutions: Which impact on the rise of earnings inequality in OECD countries?
Chen, Wen-Hao; Förster, Michael; Llena-Nozal, Ana - 2013
opportunities but at the same time also contributed to greater wage inequality. Finally, the growth in the supply of skilled workers … identifies the relevant pathways between macro-economic developments and earnings inequality among the whole working … inequality; it transmitted inequality mainly through raising wage dispersion. Economic globalisation, in terms of both rapidly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335507
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Growth still is good for the poor
Dollar, David; Kleineberg, Tatjana; Kraay, Aart - 2013
conditioning on a variety of country-level factors that may matter for growth and inequality changes. This evidence confirms the … also small relative to the variation in growth in average incomes, implying that the latter accounts for most of the … variation in income growth in the poorest quintiles. These findings hold across most regions and time periods and when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335550
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Trade and Poverty in Latin America
Schejtman, Alexander; Berry, Albert; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - Inter-American Development Bank
Understanding the complex relations between trade integration and poverty reduction is now a priority for Latin American policymakers. The chapters of this book, penned by eminent authors with a long-standing record in the field, represent the current state of knowledge about trade and poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772398
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Revista Integración & Comercio: Año 5 : No. 15 : Septiembre-diciembre, 2001 Title: Integration & Trade Journal: Volume 5 : No. 15 : September-December, 2001
Dijck, Pitou van; Nicholls, Shelton; Nicholls, Garth; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
of the environment in development, income inequality and the economic conditions in Haiti. Throughout this project, the …
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Income polarization and economic growth
Brzezinski, Michal - 2013
growth in the short term, while the impact of income inequality on growth is statistically insignificant. Our results are …This study examines empirically the impact of income polarization on economic growth in an unbalanced panel of more …-level datasets, as well as datasets reconstructed from grouped data on income distribution taken from the World Income Inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335431
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Pension income inequality: A cohort study in six European countries
Neugschwender, Jörg - 2014
This paper is an empirical overview of inequalities of pension outcomes in six European countries, which are shaped by a variety of institutional pensions schemes. The study contrasts pension system regulation in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the United Kingdom; and analyses their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335792
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Inflation and the rich after the global financial crisis
Jovanovic, Branimir - 2014
episodes in order to prevent rising income inequality. …
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Relative income distribution in six European countries: Market and disposable income
Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2015
The relationship between income inequality and polarization is an empirical fact: a change in equality might occur … together with a change in polarization. At the same time, polarization might emerge while inequality remains constant. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335810
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A fresh look at an old question: Is pro-poor targeting of cash transfers more effective than universal systems at reducing inequality and poverty?
McKnight, Abigail - 2015
This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty … and inequality. The strength of the relationship varies between countries and in some cases between the all age and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335815