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Impact of education on inequality across the wage distribution profile in Cameroon: 2005-10
Baye, Francis Menjo - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418626
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Taxation and inequality in developing countries: Lessons from the recent experience of Latin America
Martorano, Bruno - 2016
This paper aims to advance understanding about the relationship between taxation and inequality in developing countries, focusing on the recent experience of Latin America. Although the tax system was regressive in the 1990s, tax changes promoted equality in the first decade of the 2000s. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653911
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A new fiscal pact, tax policy changes and income inequality: Latin America during the last decade
Cornia, Giovanni Andrea; Gómez-Sabaini, Juan Carlos; … - 2011
slightly or substantially more progressive way than in the past, that the Gini coefficient of the distribution of household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280161
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An analysis of the distributional impact of excise duty in Uganda using a tax-benefit microsimulation model
Kavuma, Susan Namirembe; Byaruhanga, Christine; Musoke, … - 2020
The distributional analysis of consumption taxes is useful for establishing the welfare impact of tax policy. This paper uses the UGAMOD microsimulation model to establish the tax incidence and welfare impact of excise duty in Uganda. The results reveal that households in the top deciles pay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424057
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When do relative prices matter for measuring income inequality? The case of food prices in Mozambique
Arndt, Channing; Jones, Sam; Salvucci, Vincenzo - 2015
real income differentials between these groups. Using Mozambican household budget survey and price data from 2002/03 and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418561
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Income and price elasticities of demand in South Africa: An application of the linear expenditure system
Burger, Rulof; Coetzee, Wicus; Kreuser, Friedrich; … - 2015
This paper investigates the expenditure patterns of South African households using detailed cross-sectional expenditure and price data. Linear expenditure system (LES) parameter estimates are used to calculate income and price elasticities for a number of product categories at different points...
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Income inequality and household debt: Examining the impact of relative income on formal and informal debt in South Africa
Foster, Shakeba - 2023
How does income inequality impact the propensity for and levels of formal and informal household debt? This paper … as well as a zero-inflated Poisson model are employed, and inequality is measured by a household relative deprivation … small-scale ventures and household financial security and a keeping-up effect- through hire purchase of furniture and …
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When do relative prices matter for measuring income inequality? The case of food prices in Mozambique
Arndt, Channing; Jones, Sam; Salvucci, Vincenzo - 2014
real measures of inequality. Using household budget survey and price data in Mozambique from 2002/03 and 2008/09, we show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494225
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Social protection floor gaps and pandemic relief measures: A case for universalism? Exploring scalability through targeted versus universalist approaches
Oppel, Annalena - 2022
With the expansion of social protection measures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, considerations both old and new have surfaced regarding targeted versus universalist approaches. This study focuses on how social protection coverage before the pandemic influences the extent of targeted versus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322622
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Climate justice for persons with disability: Few harmed much, fewer still harmed too much
Tampubolon, Gindo - 2023
Building on Rawls' theory of justice and Sen's theory of capabilities, I present an outline of social justice under climate shocks, illustrating it with the experiences of persons with disability. Social justice holds when inequality is responded to by rules that afford more primary goods, such...
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