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We investigate the welfare implications of two pre-crisis immigration waves (1991– 2000 and 2001–2010) and of the post … across countries and across skill groups. In relative terms, the post-crisis wave induces smaller welfare gains compared to …
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(labor market impact, fiscal impact, capital deepening, endogenous education, endogenous inequality). We use a backsolving …
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regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant …
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estimate the welfare consequences of these food price increases, and their distribution across households. Because Brazil is a …
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We discuss and review literature on the macroeconomic effects of epidemics and pandemics since the late 20th century. First, we cover the role of health in driving economic growth and well-being and discuss standard frameworks for assessing the economic burden of infectious diseases. Second, we...
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estimate the welfare consequences of these food price increases, and their distribution across households. Because Brazil is a …
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natives (labor market impact, fiscal impact, capital deepening, endogenous education, endogenous inequality). We use a …
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regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant …
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upside inequality aversion than what is exhibited by the Gini coefficient. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that the sequences … of dominance criteria characterize two separate systems of nested subfamilies of inequality measures and thus provide a … characterizations of the corresponding social welfare orderings. …
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curves which was proved to characterize two separate systems of nested subfamilies of inequality measures. This paper uses … the obtained characterization results to arrange the members of two different generalized Gini families of inequality … ranking of a set of Lorenz curves. From the weight-functions of these inequality measures we obtain intuitive interpretations …
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