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Household's expenditure in health and education : effects on poverty and child poverty estimates in five middle income countries : India, Mexico, South Africa, Russian Federation a...
Ait Mansour, Hicham - 2016
There is a wide agreement among poverty research community that conventional estimates of poverty (i.e., money … overestimate total household expenditure, which results in an underestimation of poverty measured in terms of household expenditure … poverty and child poverty estimates in five middle-income countries (India, Mexico, South Africa, Russian Federation and Peru …
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Redistribution and child poverty : a cross-national comparison between Brazil, Colombia, Panama, Peru, Russia, and South Africa
González, Marcela F. - 2022
state taking child poverty as case of study. I use the LIS Database and cross-nationally compare six countries: Brazil … assess in each country to what extent taxes and government transfers reduce the child poverty generated by the market. I use …: Wave VIII (2010), Wave XIX (2013) and Wave X (2016). I cross-nationally compare the relative child poverty at 40%, 50%, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013337584
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Experience and perception of social mobility : a cross-country test of the self-serving bias
Weber, Nina - 2020
Perceptions of social mobility in society are one of the most important determinants of individuals' preferences for redistribution and tolerance for economic inequalities. What shapes these perceptions is however so far little understood. In this paper, I propose and empirically test a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012165777
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Redistribution as an income mobility process : the identification and measurement of redistribution
Morillas, Juan Rafael - 2009
How can we evaluate the redistributive effect of welfare states? Do tax and transfer systems reduce the level of inequality generated in the market? In order to answer these questions, we need to be equipped with adequate measures of redistribution. Current measures employed in the sociology and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003881698
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Falling behind or catching up? : cross-country evidence in intra-generational wages mobility through pseudo-panels
Lilla, Marco - 2016
The paper aims to encompass evidence on wage distribution and inequality with micro-mobility measures for several countries in the 2000s, by applying pseudo-panel methodology to microdata from the LIS database. Hence, different paths in term of wage growth or stagnation, increasing or declining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484346
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Global trends in intergenerational income inequality?
Guaitoli, Gabriele; Pancrazi, Roberto - 2022
We document the evolution of intergenerational income (IGI ) inequality, measured as the relative income between old and young individuals, using harmonised microdata from 42 countries at different stages of economic development. In the last 20 years, IGI inequality has increased (in favour of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012888008
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Social capital and equality : Tocqueville's legacy
Ferragina, Emanuele - 2009
Social capital theory has become increasingly important in the social science literature, integrating approaches previously based only on the classical forms of capital. In this article, the emergence of the concept of Social Capital is approached from a sociological and political point of view....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003881702
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Pension income inequality : a cohort study in six European countries
Neugschwender, Jörg - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010422868
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Family policies and single parent poverty in 18 OECD countries, 1978 - 2008
Maldonado, Laurie C.; Nieuwenhuis, Rense - 2014 - Revised Version
In this study, we examined to what extent family policies differently affect poverty among single-parent households and …, family policies reduced poverty to a greater extent among single-parent households. Paid leave more effectively facilitated … the employment of single parents, thereby reducing their poverty more than among two-parent households. Family allowances …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010428798
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Pension institutions and income inequality across European societies : Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom
Neugschwender, Jörg - 2015
affected the income position of high-income pensioners. However, also the structure of public pension benefits had a poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010465441