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Income Inequality in Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador : Different Reasons
Aristizábal-Ramírez, María - 2015
This paper analyzes the individual-level determinants of wage inequality for Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador from 2001 …'s or Ecuador's. In 2010, educational achievement explains over 10.9 percent of the Gini score in Colombia, 6.3 percent in … Ecuador, and a mere 2.4 percent in Bolivia. Our findings show that the sources of income inequality can differ substantially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016284
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Using Pseudo-Panels to Measure Income Mobility in Latin America
Cuesta, Jose - 2011
This paper presents a comparative overview of mobility patterns in 14 Latin American countries between 1992 and 2003. Using three alternative econometric techniques on constructed pseudo-panels, the paper provides a set of estimators for the traditional notion of income mobility as well as for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130794
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Intensity of Time and Income Interdependent Multidimensional Poverty : Well-Being and Minimum 2DGAP – German Evidence
Merz, Joachim - 2011
Extending the traditional income poverty concept by multidimensional poverty has been of growing interest within the last years. This paper contributes with an analysis of interdependent multidimensional (IMD) poverty intensity of time and income, which in particular restricts social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119297
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Do Middle Classes Bring Institutional Reforms?
Loayza, Norman - 2012
We revisit the link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes using a newly developed cross-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the distribution of income and expenditures. When the size of the middle class increases (measured as the proportion of people...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108216
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Poverty, Inequality, and the Local Natural Resource Curse
Loayza, Norman - 2013
The extent to which local communities benefit from commodity booms has been subject to wide but inconclusive investigations. This paper draws from a new district-level database to investigate the local impact on socioeconomic outcomes of mining activity in Peru, which grew almost twentyfold in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085487
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Migration and Urban Poverty and Inequality in China
Park, Albert - 2014
Using data from recent surveys of migrants and local residents in 10 cities in 2005, this paper examines how migration influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for migrants and local residents. Contrary to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069993
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Poverty Trends in Turkey
Demir, Sırma - 2013
This paper provides new evidence about poverty trends in Turkey between 2003 and 2011 and the factors accounting for them. We give particular attention to issues of statistical inference, and the choice of the poverty line and the poverty measure. Our robust conclusion is that absolute poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071446
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Time and Income Poverty : An Interdependent Multidimensional Poverty Approach with German Time Use Diary Data
Merz, Joachim - 2009
Income as the traditional one dimensional measure in well-being and poverty analyses is extended in recent studies by a multidimensional poverty concept. Though this is certainly a progress, however, two important aspects are missing: time as an important dimension and the interdependence of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157272
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Review of the Recent Trends in Development Economics Research : With Experience from the Federal Region of Kurdistan
Heshmati, Almas - 2008
This study is a review of the recent trends in development economics research. The focus is on the development in the recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the development in a number area where similar trends are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773083
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Analysing the Effects of Tax-Benefit Reforms on Income Distribution : A Decomposition Approach
Bargain, Olivier - 2007
To assess the impact of tax-benefit policy changes on income distribution over time, we suggest a methodology based on counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposing changes in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the tax-benefit structure (rules, rates, etc.),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775691