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characterized by increased influence from the financial market andextreme economic events - using data from the Household Income …
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, estimates based on the Bank of Italy?s Survey of Household Income and Wealth reveal a surprising stability of income … distributive changes across socio-economic groups which have cancelled out at the aggregate level; higher income mobility not …
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income of the pensioners fell behind that of workers and relative poverty increased. The analysis shows that the limited … resources of many of the elderly put them close to a socially interesting poverty line. Income inequality among the elderly has … characterized by increased influence from the financial market and extreme economic events using data from the Household Income …
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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 with income above 10 US Dollars a day in PPP terms), social policy on …
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change in income, inequality, and poverty over the 15 year period and investigates the determinants of poverty. It is found … saving rate of the poor due to an increase in income uncertainty contributes significantly to the increase in poverty … measured in terms of expenditure. Even though income growth reduces poverty, the radical reform measures implemented in the …
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, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality … estimates. In particular, the equivalence scales applied to cash income are not necessarily appropriate when including non …-cash income, because the receipt of public services is likely to be associated with particular needs. In this paper, we propose a …
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Assessments of whose income growth is the greatest and whose is the smallest are typically based on comparisons of … income changes for income groups (e.g. rich versus poor) or income values (e.g. quantiles). However, income group and … quantile composition changes over time because of income mobility. To summarize patterns of income growth while also tracking …
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This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …
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benefit from economic growth. The linkage between growth, redistribution and poverty is also analysed. In the review of … income inequality is declining over time. Inequality is also declining in growth of income. There is a significant regional …
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the three components mean child income, demographic circumstances and the distribution of child income. Child poverty is …This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … compares the extent as well as profile of child poverty in both countries. Comparisons on the extent of child poverty, over …
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