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. This paper contributes to fill this gap by offering a case study on Egypt, and adds to our knowledge of income inequality … 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 …
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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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Jordan. The results suggest that migration increases inequality in both origin and receiving countries. …
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conditioning on a variety of country-level factors that may matter for growth and inequality changes. This evidence confirms the …
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the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …
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Intra-household inequality continues to remain a neglected corner despite renewed focus on income and wealth inequality …. Using the LIS micro data, we present evidence that this neglect is Equivalent to ignoring up to a third of total inequality …. For a wide range of countries and over four decades, we show that at least 30 per cent of total inequality is attributable …
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consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …
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Over the last three decades, the wealth-to-income ratio (WIR) in many Western countries, particularly in Europe and North America, increased by a factor of two. This represents a defining empirical trend: a rewealthization (from the French repatrimonialisation) – or the comeback of (inherited)...
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This paper addresses the question to what extent the association between partners' earnings matters for inequality … in most countries, this only amplified inequality on some occasions. In most countries, increases in the earnings … inequality perspective. …
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inequality (how the composition of income between capital and labor varies along income distribution). Capitalism may be seen to … countries over the past 25 years, we show that higher compositional inequality is associated with higher inter …-personal inequality. Nordic countries are exceptional because they combine high compositional inequality with low inter …
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