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This paper frames growth incidence analysis within the logic of social impact evaluation understood as an assessment of variations in individual and social outcomes attributable to shocks and policies. It uses recentered influence function (RIF) regression to link the growth incidence curve...
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This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced … declare low and high levels of happiness. Rising income inequality moderates the fall in happiness inequality, and may even … the happiness of all, it will at least harmonize the happiness of all, providing that income inequality does not grow too …
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The interplay of between- and within-country inequality, the relative contribution of each to overall global inequality … avenue for economic research. Drawing conclusions from aggregate inequality indices such as the Gini and Theil reduces the … highly complex nature of global inequality to a single coefficient and makes it impossible to take a nuanced view of how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878113
Income differences arise from many sources. While some kinds of inequality, caused by effort differences, might be … Surveys, to revisit the question of whether inequality is associated with economic growth and, in particular, to examine … whether inequality of opportunity – driven by circumstances at birth - has a negative effect on subsequent growth. Results are …
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-level datasets, as well as datasets reconstructed from grouped data on income distribution taken from the World Income Inequality … growth in the short term, while the impact of income inequality on growth is statistically insignificant. Our results are …
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In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality …
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This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced … declare low and high levels of happiness. Rising income inequality moderates the fall in happiness inequality, and may even … the happiness of all, it will at least harmonize the happiness of all, providing that income inequality does not grow too …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287229
During the last 20 years, microsimulation models have been increasingly applied in qualitative and quantitative analysis of public policies. This paper discusses microsimulation techniques and their theoretical background as a tool for the analysis of public policies. It next analyses basic...
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Evidence of an increase in inequality since the 1970s has motivated research on its relationship to growth and … researchers rely on different group measures of inequality. Inequality by gender, household, class, and ethnicity may produce …, the effect of inequality on growth depends on the measure used. For example, inequalities in capabilities (such as …
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In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334229