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1990 and the effects on poverty. To produce comparability between two household surveys, they use survey matching … significant decrease in the poverty headcount over the period and small but insignificant decreases in the country's extremely … high levels of inequality. Decomposition analysis shows that poverty reduction in Namibia is largely driven by growth in …
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economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight … poverty and inequality. …
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This paper studies income poverty among the 50+ population in 10 EU countries using newly collected data from the SHARE …. Relative income poverty range from 10 percent (in Sweden) to 22 percent (in Switzerland). Logistic regression estimates show … increased likelihood of poverty. Less risk of poverty can be found among those that have supervision over the workplace, have …
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of recipients. I then discuss empirical work on the effects of the EITC on poverty and income distribution, and its …
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traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and, to a …
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This article analyzes income redistribution in the inter-ethnic context. The model shows that redistribution in favor of less prosperous ethnic minorities raises fertility among the unskilled minority recipients, lowers fertility among the contributing local skilled, slows human capital...
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We construct a matrix showing the share of the year 2000 population in every country that is descended from people in different source countries in the year 1500. Using this matrix, we analyze how post-1500 migration has influenced the level of GDP per capita and within-country income inequality...
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Several countries around the world have adopted the inflation targeting regime for monetary policy. Despite the growing literature on the issue, it is not clear whether developing and emerging countries can improve their economic performance by adopting inflation targeting. This working paper...
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This paper investigates the concentration of access to safe water across income levels in Bolivia. In particular, it focuses on how privatisation has changed coverage, affordability and the concentration of access to water on the part of the poor. We compare the performance of cities in which...
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