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Estimating inequality measures from quantile data
Belz, Enora - 2019
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Inequality as entitlements over labour
Segal, Paul - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012703321
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Income inequality and the absence of a Tawney moment in the mass media
McGovern, Patrick; Obradovic, Sandra; Bauer, Martin W. - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696012
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Brexit and labour market inequalities : potential spatial and occupational impacts
Davenport, Alexander; Levell, Peter - 2021
In this paper we examine the possible distributional impacts of new trade barriers associated with the new Trade and Cooperation Agreement governing relations between the UK and EU after Brexit. We use a model of labour demand that incorporates input-output links across industries, and that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012665590
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Potential consequences of post-Brexit trade barriers for earnings inequality in the UK
Griffith, Rachel; Levell, Peter; Norris Keiller, Agnes - 2020
We examine the distributional consequences of post-Brexit trade barriers on wages in the UK. We quantify changes in trade costs across industries accounting for input-output links across domestic industries and global value chains. We allow for demand substitution by firms and consumers and...
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Unequal contributions to CO2 emissions along the income distribution within and between countries
Cappelli, Federica - 2024
The question of whether changes in income inequality affect CO2 emissions remains a topic of debate at both theoretical …
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Technology, jobs and inequality : evidence from India's manufacturing sector
Kapoor, Radhicka - 2016
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011419822
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The impact of monetary policy on inequality in the UK : an empirical analysis
Mumtaz, Haroon; Theophilopoulou, Angeliki - 2016
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431334
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Intercontinental evidence on socioeconomic status and early childhood cognitive skills : is Latin America different?
López Bóo, Florencia - 2013
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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An updated assessment of the trade and poverty nexus in Latin America
Giordano, Paolo; Li, Kun - 2012
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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