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Changes in the tax structure and category of taxes clearly matter when it comes to initiating tax policies. This paper employs data from a sample of 33 transitional countries over the period 1991-2014. It finds that, in a particular transitional country, the higher the national income, the...
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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 … returns to education for the period 2005-10 largest for the 5th and 10th percentiles. Inequality decreased from the lower to …
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date, and then to use this as a background for the analysis of poverty, inequality, and non-monetary outcomes. The analysis … of poverty and inequality uses the microeconomic data from three comparable and nationally representative Cameroonian …
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-level activities, size-wise as well as state-wise, thereby creating some sort of inequality. Moreover, we also show that the aggregate …
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nature of occupational employment in explaining the rising earnings inequality during the same period. First, we find …-15. Third, using reference influence function regressions, we quantify the extent to which changes in inequality over time can …
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Overall income inequality in South Africa is very high, and inequality generated in the labour market is a key driver … of inequality. In this paper, I use the Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series, the General Household Surveys, and … administrative tax microdata to describe earnings inequality in South Africa. I estimate Gini coefficients, the variance of log …
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This paper identifies the socioeconomic drivers of earnings inequality in Peru in the period 2004-18. Using the ENAHO … household surveys and data on routine task content of occupations, we apply inequality decomposition methods to the real … earnings distribution, its quantiles, and the Gini index. We find that in this period inequality has reduced, with great …
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This paper aims at providing new evidence over the effect of conventional monetary policy shocks on wage inequality …
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In this paper, we use the World Income Inequality Database to assess the main trends in inequality within countries … only a few exceptions, we compare the same inequality concept obtained from the same source in two different years in each … witnessing a decline of inequality as measured by the Gini index, even if once accounted for the fact that inequality increased …
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Inequality in South Africa is the enduring legacy of racial discrimination. We use a dynamic perspective to show the … reducing inequality. We present a machine-learning analysis based on household survey data in the Post-Apartheid Labour Market … behaviour of variables related to labour market status, and labour income inequality. The empirical investigation covers the …
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