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Jordan. The results suggest that migration increases inequality in both origin and receiving countries. …
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Goals. Yet existing research on income inequality in developing economies has not devoted much attention to the regional … dimension. This is important, as progress in reducing income inequality at national level on SDG Goal 10 is only a partial …. This paper contributes to fill this gap by offering a case study on Egypt, and adds to our knowledge of income inequality …
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Lupu and Pontusson (2011) argue that the structure of income inequality, rather than its level, can explain differences … inequality, the concept of theoretical interest; and (c) there is no indication that skew in the distribution of incomes (rather … literature offers no support for the proposition that the structure of inequality has consequences for fiscal redistribution. …
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In the distributive analysis, the constant relative inequality aversion utility function is a standard tool for ethical … judgements of income distributions. The sole parameter ε of this function expresses a society’s aversion to inequality. However … inequality aversion utility function using datasets available from the Luxembourg Income Study Database. We utilise the method of …
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Defining the ‘global middle class’ as being neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate the size of the global middle class in China and 33 other countries and analyze China’s expanding middle class in international perspective. China’s global middle class has grown rapidly...
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In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly … in income distribution. In order to do so, we are using a decomposition of changes in inequality measures over time … in poverty and richness as well and compare them with results that were obtained by a re-weighting procedure. Our results …
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In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly … in income distribution. In order to do so, we are using a decomposition of changes in inequality measures over time … in poverty and richness as well and compare them with results that were obtained by a re-weighting procedure. Our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008519438
This paper is an empirical overview of inequalities of pension outcomes in six European countries, which are shaped by a variety of institutional pensions schemes. The study contrasts pension system regulation in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the United Kingdom; and analyses their...
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different regulatory approaches may, in the end, have quite diverse implications on income inequality among the elderly. A … affected the income position of high-income pensioners. However, also the structure of public pension benefits had a poverty …
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episodes in order to prevent rising income inequality. …
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