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to data from 12 countries, and investigate resource shares, gender gaps, and poverty at the individual level. We reject … equal sharing, and find large gender gaps in resource shares, and consequently in poverty rates, in some countries. …
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of poverty rates and inequality levels. We also estimate a heterogeneous response to the mining-abundant condition …, finding stronger responses in lower-poverty, higher-inequality districts. Finally, we find a trend suggesting incremental … activities, on the reduction of poverty and inequality. …
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finds that the main factor contributing to poverty reduction has been individuals' changes in labor earnings, and the role … constraining the period's remarkable progress in poverty reduction and expansion of the middle class. …
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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...
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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...
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poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) --a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural …
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Unemployment continues to be one of the major challenges in industrialized societies. Aside from its economic dimensions and societal repercussions, questions concerning the individual experience of unemployment have recently attracted increasing attention. Although many studies have documented...
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Using self reported measures of life satisfaction and risk attitudes, we empirically test whether there is a relationship between individuals inequality and risk aversion. The empirical analysis uses the German SOEP household panel for the years 1997 to 2007 to conclude that the negative effect...
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This paper employs a multidimensional approach for the measurement of well-being at the top of the distribution using German SOEP micro data. Besides income as traditional indicator for material well-being, we include health as a proxy for nonmaterial quality of life as well as self-reported...
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