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The relationship between income inequality and polarization is an empirical fact: a change in equality might occur … together with a change in polarization. At the same time, polarization might emerge while inequality remains constant. The …
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investigate perceived social position and income inequality in six different countries between the 1990's and 2000's in order to … inequality in perceptions. Consequently, the dynamics of perceptions can help explain, for example, the empirical evidence … with increasing inequality detected in some countries. …
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The paper aims to encompass evidence on wage distribution and inequality with micro-mobility measures for several …
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research examining the issue has concentrated on international specialization and within-country income inequality as main … that income inequality is perceived very differently depending on openness to trade. The relevance of perceptions has wider …
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Meltzer and Richard (1981), higher initial inequality levels do not correlate positively with redistribution. I conduct a …
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changes at the extremes of the distribution might obscure inequality's actual dimension, and thereby help perpetuate it. To … avoid this, the present paper discusses a complementary indicator for the measurement of inequality: the ratio of the income …
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We examine the extent to which declining manufacturing employment may have contributed to increasing inequality in …: the high initial manufacturing wage premium and the high level of income inequality. The manufacturing wage premium … declined between the 1980s and the 2000s in the United States, but it does not explain the contemporaneous rise in inequality …
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The last decade has seen a sharp increase in interest in the possible existence of a Paradox of Redistribution (PoR) whereby narrow targeting of social transfers aimed at increasing their redistributive (poverty) impact has the perverse effect of increasing poverty over the medium term due to...
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yield higher inequality as measured by the Gini (0-9 pc.pt. increase) and the top 1% and 10% income shares (0-5, and 1-5 pc … mismeasurement rise. Taxable income is subject to the highest inequality, which further undergoes the highest upward correction for … corrections confirm the inequality-neutral impact of pensions in Mexico, and equalizing impacts of transfers, direct taxes …
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Jordan. The results suggest that migration increases inequality in both origin and receiving countries. …
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