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Economic mobility, family background, and the well-being of children in the United States and Canada
Corak, Miles; Curtis, Lori; Phipps, Shelley - 2010
and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We suggest that the existing literature finds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269450
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Testing for poverty dominance: an application to Canada
Chen, Wen-Hao; Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2008
The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272033
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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010
that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270632
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Health and income: a robust comparison of Canada and the US
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Échevin, Damien - 2009
approach by contrasting Canada and the US using comparable data. Canada dominates the US over the lower bi-dimensional welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269622
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Enhanced fee-for-service model and access to physician services: Evidence from Family Health Groups in Ontario
Kantarevic, Jasmin; Kralj, Boris; Weinkauf, Darrel - 2010
, Canada. In contrast to the traditional fee-for-service (FFS) model, the FHG model includes targeted fee increases, extended …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269806
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Earnings inequality in India: has the rise of caste and religion based politics in India had an impact?
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2006
Since 1989, there has been a sharp increase in the role of caste and religion in determining political fortunes at both … state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant inter-caste and inter-religion differences in earnings have … unexplored. We address this lacuna in the literature, and explore the determinants of the differences in inter-caste and inter-religion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267499
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Is education the panacea for economic deprivation of Muslims? Evidence from wage earners in India, 1987 - 2005
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2007
Few researchers have examined the nature and determinants of earnings differentials among religious groups, and none has been undertaken in the context of conflict-prone multi-religious societies like the one in India. We address this lacuna in the literature by examining the differences in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268735
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Poverty, inequality, and the local natural resource curse
Loayza, Norman; Mier y Teran, Alfredo; Rigolini, Jamele - 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/10010293203
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Economic gains from publicly provided education in Germany
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2007
The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided education and to analyse their impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and education-specific variation, from a cross-sectional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324269
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The impact of home production on economic inequality in Germany
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2009
Using representative income and time use-data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we estimate non-monetary income advantages arising from home production and analyse their impact on economic inequality. As an alternative to existing measures, we propose a predicted wage approach based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324273