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education and wealth increasing or decreasing in the 20-year interval between 1991 and 2010?'. Horizontal inequality in … other sub-national regions. However, Tanzanian society is becoming more unequal in wealth with rising wealth inequality …
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This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education increased monotonically. Yet incremental returns were...
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The paper reviews the extent of the income inequality decline that took place in Latin America in 2002-10 and then focuses on the factors that may explain such decline. These include a lowered skill premium following an expansion of secondary education among the poor, and the adoption of more...
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This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the forces that determine inequality change, focusing on...
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We analyse the evolution and proximate determinants of labour income inequality in Mexico between 1989 and 2017. Labour income inequality increased between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2006. What happened after 2006 is subject to uncertainty. The national labour force survey shows...
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We investigate the heterogeneous and nonlinear intergenerational transmission channels of education and the impact on this of house price appreciation. Using the China Household Finance Survey 2011, we construct household history of property purchases and educational investment over the past 16...
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This paper estimates the distribution of personal wealth in South Africa by combining tax microdata, household surveys …, and macroeconomic balance sheet statistics. We systematically compare estimates of the wealth distribution obtained by … direct measurement of net worth, rescaling of reported wealth to balance sheet totals, and capitalization of income flows. We …
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We examine the heterogeneous and dynamic impact of China's New Rural Pension Scheme on intergenerational wealth … observed individual heterogeneity. Overall, we find that the pension scheme smooths wealth dependence between generations in … the wealth portfolio. Complementary policy interventions, particularly for the poor across generations, would be needed to …
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and mapping indicators of horizontal wealth inequality along geographic regions and ethnolinguistic identities. Using … average household wealth indicators, there is a strong suggestion of increasing group inequalities between 1997 and 2017 …, the differences in average wealth between groups, if perceived, may feed grievances. They should be better understood so …
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individuals' fairness perceptions regarding wealth inequality. It begins from the premise that prominent measures of inequality …'s contribution highlights the importance of 'intuitive' measures of political matters such as wealth inequality. It further indicates …
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