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No education, no good jobs? Evidence from the relationship between education and labor market segmentation
Pagés, Carmen; Stampini, Marco - 2007
This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately at the markets for skilled and unskilled labor, inquiring if segmentation is an exclusive feature of the latter....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278304
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Evaluating the gender wage gap in Georgia, 2004 - 2011
Khitarishvili, Tamar - 2013
This paper evaluates the gender wage gap among wage workers along the wage distribution in Georgia between 2004 and 2011, based on the recentered influence function (RIF) decomposition approach developed in Firpo, Fortin, and Lemieux (2009). We find that the gender wage gap decreases along the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318651
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External instability in transition: Applying Minsky's theory of financial fragility to international markets
Malyshava, Liudmila - 2018
This inquiry argues that the successful completion of the transition process in the post-Soviet economies is constrained by the prevailing social structure and low levels of technological progress, both of which require institutional reforms aimed at increasing growth in national income,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142956
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Robust estimates of changes in poverty and inequality in post-independence Namibia
Levine, Sebastian; Roberts, Benjamin - 2012
high levels of inequality. Decomposition analysis shows that poverty reduction in Namibia is largely driven by growth in … mean incomes rather than redistribution. Even so, there have been important changes in inequality, especially between … different social groups, as educational attainment has replaced ethnicity as the main determinant of inequality between groups. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293269
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The role of gender inequalities in explaining income growth, poverty and inequality: Evidence from Latin American countries
Costa, Joana; Silva, Elydia; Vaz, Fábio - 2009
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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Are the MDGs priority in development strategies and aid programmes? Only few are!
Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko - 2008
a goal of reducing inequality in income and other dimensions of poverty within and between countries. Second, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293310
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Towards a common vision: Pulling together or apart? A review of sub-national patterns of multiple deprivation in Namibia
Odhiambo, Ojijo - 2012
intraregional inequality and inequity with respect to levels of income and access to basic services and identifying priority sectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293311
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The gap between the conditional wage distributions of incumbents and the newly hired employees: Decomposition and uniform ordering
Maasoumi, Esfandiar; Pitts, M. Melinda; Wu, Ke - 2014
workers enjoy a better distribution of wages, but the attribution of the gap to wage inequality and human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310193
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Multi-dimensional poverty index and tackling interlocking deprivations in the Arab States
Nawar, Abdel-Hameed - 2014
-specific dimensions, indicators, weights and cut-offs. This paper analyses the 2013 round of the multidimensional poverty and inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335894
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The poor, the prosperous and the 'inbetweeners': A fresh perspective on global society, inequality and growth
Edward, Peter; Sumner, Andy - 2014
What has happened to inequality between and within countries since 1990? In this paper we explore who have been the … winners and losers from global growth since 1990. We find that falls in total global inequality in the last 30 years are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335897