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Income and Poverty in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Han, Jeehoon - 2020

impact of the current pandemic on income and poverty to inform the targeting of resources to those most affected and assess … the success of current efforts. We construct new measures of the income distribution and poverty with a lag of only a few …, government policy effectively countered its effects on incomes, leading poverty to fall and low percentiles of income to rise …

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Winners and Losers Over Two Centuries of Globalization

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2002

globalization on commodity price structure, the causes of protection, the impact of world migration on poverty eradication, and the …

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Measuring ancient inequality

Milanovic, Branko - 2007

"Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using...

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Explaining Inequality the World Round : Cohort Size, Kuznets Curves, andOpenness

Higgins, Matthew - 1999

Klaus Deininger and Lyn Squire have recently produced an inequality data base for a panel of countries from the 1960s to the 1990s. We use these data to decompose the sources of inequality into three central parts: the demographic or cohort size effect; the so-called Kuznets Curve or demand...

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Inequality in the Joint Distribution of Consumption and Time Use

Han, Jeehoon - 2018

This paper examines inequality in both leisure and consumption over the past four decades using time use surveys stretching from 1975 to 2016. We show that individual and family characteristics, especially when including work hours, explain most of the long run variation in leisure. We then use...

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Latin American Growth-Inequality Trade-Offs : The Impact of Insurgence and Independence

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2010

Did independence push Latin America down a growth-inequality trade-off? During the late colonial decades, the region completed two centuries of growth unmatched anywhere and inequality reached spectacular heights. During the half century after insurgency and independence, inequality fell steeply...

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Five Centuries of Latin American Inequality

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2009

Most analysts of the modern Latin American economy hold to a pessimistic belief in historical persistence -- they believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, suggesting it will be hard for modern social policy to create a more egalitarian society. This paper argues...

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History without Evidence : Latin American Inequality since 1491

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2009

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Measuring Ancient Inequality

Milanovic, Branko - 2007

Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465096

Globalization, Growth and Distribution in Spain 1500-1913

Rosés, Joan R. - 2007

The endogenous growth literature has explored the transition from a Malthusian world where real wages, living standards and labor productivity are all linked to factor endowments, to one where (endogenous) productivity change embedded in modern industrial growth breaks that link. Recently,...

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