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capital augmenting technological progress on the distribution of income and wage inequality. This paper attempts to fill this … explains rising inequality. Our results also underline the existence of capital-skill complementarity: firms with higher …
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The UK has experienced a dramatic increase in earnings and income inequality over the past four decades. We use … detailed micro level information to construct quarterly historical measures of inequality from 1969 to 2012. We investigate … whether monetary policy shocks played a role in explaining this increase in inequality. We find that contractionary monetary …
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of poverty rates and inequality levels. We also estimate a heterogeneous response to the mining-abundant condition …, finding stronger responses in lower-poverty, higher-inequality districts. Finally, we find a trend suggesting incremental … activities, on the reduction of poverty and inequality. …
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This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children from households with high and low socioeconomic status (SES) in two different phases of childhood (before and after early school years) in four developing countries: Peru,...
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Despite the growing political priority given to making trade work for the majority in Latin America, a notable gap exists in the knowledge about the distributive impacts of trade integration. This study attempts to fill this gap: it surveys the most recent contributions to the mainstream trade...
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This paper presents a novel way to disentangle inequality aversion over time from inequality aversion between regions … of inequality aversion. We use two integrated assessment models (FUND and RICE) for our numerical exercise to get more … robust findings. Our results suggest that inequality considerations lead to a higher (lower) SCC values in high (low) income …
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of these changes has been less important in reducing income inequality. The main driving force of reduced income … inequality has been the fall in returns to education, which at the same time has been one of the important factors to …
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