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Migration and inequalities around the Mediterranean Sea

Nilsson, Björn; Ramadan, Racha - 2020

This paper aims to quantify the effects from migration on net income distributions, disentangling the roles played by … variant of a shift-share instrument to identify the effect of migration on inequalities at the regional level in Spain and … Jordan. The results suggest that migration increases inequality in both origin and receiving countries. …

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Education gap and youth : a growing challenge in the MENA region

Rizk, Reham; Hawash, Ronia - 2020

Education inequality has always been a concern for policy makers due to its long-term and intergenerational impacts. This paper examines the determinants and the sources of education inequality among the youth in the MENA region using harmonized income and expenditure surveys. More attention is...

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Estimating inequality of opportunity in more periods than ever before : the capital income approach

Valle-Inclán Cruces, Hugo del - 2019 - This version: March 15th 2019

The measurement of Inequality of Opportunity has attracted a lot of attention in recent years, despite of the fact that it is very limited by the scarce availability of data on family background. In this paper we propose a method to overcome this limitation, which consists of using another...

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How redistributive policies reduce market inequality : education premiums in 22 OECD countries

Weisstanner, David; Armingeon, Klaus - 2018

What explains the large cross-country variation in the wage premium for higher education? Economic analyses of wage differentials by education point to technological change and globalisation, but we know little about the impact of different types of public policies. We argue that public...

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The rise of China's global middle class in international perspective

Sicular, Terry; Yang, Xiuna; Gustafsson, Björn - 2021

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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The atlas of inequality aversion : theory and empirical evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study Database

Kot, Stanisław Maciej; Paradowski, Piotr R. - 2022

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, the profession has not committed to the...

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Patterns of regional income inequality in Egypt : implications for sustainable development goal 10

Bournakis, Ioannis; Said, Mona; Savoia, Antonio; … - 2020

Income distribution is seen as instrumental to human development and to a number of development outcomes through a variety of channels. It is also considered important in itself, as testified by its inclusion in the Sustainable Development Goals. Yet existing research on income inequality in...

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What is social inequality and why does it matter? : evidence from central and eastern Europe

Binelli, Chiara; Loveless, Matthew; Whitefield, Stephen - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 70 (2015), pp. 239-248

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Income polarization and economic growth

Brzezinski, Michal - 2013

This study examines empirically the impact of income polarization on economic growth in an unbalanced panel of more than 70 countries during the 1960-2005 period. We calculate various polarization indices using existing micro-level datasets, as well as datasets reconstructed from grouped data on...

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The global consumption and income project (GCIP) : an overview

Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2016 - (revised in April 2016)

We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The current benchmark version of the dataset...

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