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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 given to income and regional disparities as source of education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228441
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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 education spending and tax-transfer policies contain the spread of “education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011870140
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Different faces of inequality across Asia : decomposition of income gaps across demographic groups
Hlasny, Vladimir - 2017
' residence, administrative region, education, employment status and gender at various income quantiles, using unconditional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628986
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Redistributive impacts of civil war : the case of Côte d'Ivoire
Hlásny, Vladimír - 2023
Many of the world's LDCs are plagued by recurring conflict. Conflict impedes sustainable development through various channels, creating conditions conducive to further conflict. Conflict has redistributive impacts, particularly when it erupts in resource-rich countries. Between 2002 and 2011,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014455370
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A note on income inequality in East Europe
Pryor, Frederic L. - 2015 - Draft: August 29, 2013
This short essay examines the proposition that the transition process to a capitalist economic system in Eastern and Central European nations has introduced greater income inequality than in long-time capitalist nations at similar stages of development. In the empirical analysis I use comparable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345753
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De-routinization of jobs and polarization of earnings : evidence from 35 countries
Longmuir, Maximilian; Schröder, Carsten; Targa, Matteo - 2020
The job polarization hypothesis suggests a U-shaped pattern of employment growth along the earnings/skill distribution, which is driven by simultaneous growth in the employment of high-skill/high-earnings and low-skill/low-earnings occupations due to Routine-Biased Technological Change (RBTC)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229067
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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
income. Using data of 24 European countries we first show that capital income is strongly related to parental education and … capital income in the set of circumstances) to those obtained with a “standard” procedure (i.e., including parental education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012009246
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Is the Pareto-Lévy law a good representation of income distributions?
Dagsvik, John K.; Jia, Zhiyang; Vatne, Bjørn Helge; … - 2011
Mandelbrot (1960) proposed using the so-called Pareto-Lévy class of distributions as a framework for representing income distributions. We argue in this paper that the Pareto-Lévy distribution is an interesting candidate for representing income distribution because its parameters are easy to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009407916
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Household earnings in Putin's Russia : distributional changes across socioeconomic groups, 2000-2016
Hlásny, Vladimír - 2022
Following Russia's February invasion of Ukraine and the imposition of sanctions by countries worldwide, Russian population faces a crisis with deep but differentiated consequences across socioeconomic groups. We examine the evolution of earnings and societal earnings gaps throughout Vladimir...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014455206
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Per capita income versus household-need adjusted income : a cross-country comparison
Koulovatianos, Christos; Minkovski, Polina; Schröder, … - 2010
We use data from the Luxembourg Income Study in order to quantify the economy-wide monetary gains achieved by household-size economies due to within-household sharing of goods by individuals living in multimember households. In most countries out of the twenty countries we examine, we observe a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008668612