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The rise and fall of income inequality in Mexico : 1989 - 2010
Campos, Raymundo; Esquivel, Gerardo; Lustig, Nora - 2012
Inequality in Mexico rose between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2010. We examine the role of market forces (demand and supply of labour by skill), institutional factors (minimum wages and unionization rate), and public policy (cash transfers) in explaining changes in inequality. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009487034
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Wage polarization in a high-inequality emerging economy : the case of South Africa
Bhorat, Haroon; Lilenstein, Kezia; Oosthuizen, Morné; … - 2020
Earnings growth in South Africa displayed a U-shaped pattern across the earnings percentiles between 2000 and 2015, resembling wage polarization in the industrialized world. We investigate whether the drivers of this example of wage polarization in an emerging economy resemble those explored for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012216449
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Gesture politics or real commitment? : gender inequality and the allocation of aid
Dreher, Axel; Gehring, Kai; Klasen, Stephan - 2013
health affect the allocation of aid in those sectors and overall, while greater female political representation appears to be … 'rewarded' with higher aid flows; employment gaps do not seem to affect the allocation of aid. Taking account of substantive and … statistical significance, overall, there is modest evidence that gender gaps affect the allocation of aid in total and for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009784721
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Measuring the labour income share of developing countries : learning from social accounting matrices
Treeck, Katharina van - 2015
This paper is the first to address the challenges of measuring the labour income share of developing countries. The poor availability and reliability of national accounts data, and the fact that self-employed people, whose labour income is hard to capture, account for a major share of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500617
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The consequences of the value-added tax on inequality
Alavuotunki, Kaisa; Pirttilä, Jukka - 2015
The adoption of the value-added tax has arguably been one of the most important tax policy measures worldwide, but is also one of the most heatedly debated. While some argue that the VAT has served as a useful tool to boost government revenue, others claim that it is also a regressive tax,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011384093
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Gender and vulnerable employment in the developing world : evidence from global microdata
Lo Bue, Maria C.; Tu Thi Ngoc Le; Santos Silva, Manuel; … - 2021
This paper investigates gender inequality in vulnerable employment: forms of employment typically featuring high precariousness, inadequate earnings, and lack of decent working conditions. Using a large collection of harmonized household surveys from developing countries, we measure long-term...
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Fiscal policy, inequality, and the poor in the developing world
Lustig, Nora - 2016
Using comparable fiscal incidence analysis, this paper examines the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty in 25 countries for around 2010. Success in fiscal redistribution is driven primarily by redistributive effort (share of social spending to GDP in each country) and the extent to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580618
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Income mobility in the developing world : recent approaches and evidence
Himanshu; Lanjouw, Peter - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2020
This paper examines income mobility in developing countries. We start by synthesizing findings from the available evidence on relative mobility and poverty dynamics. We then describe evidence on economic mobility obtained via synthetic panels constructed from cross-section data. We echo earlier...
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Welfare and redistributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2019
This paper presents an analysis of the recent evolution of social assistance in the developing world, looking at its complex typological configuration, which has interlinked with, and partly reflects the complex demographic and epidemiological transitions and rapid urbanization and economic...
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Inequality and voting in fragile countries : evidence from Mozambique
Bove, Margherita; Egger, Eva-Maria; Jones, Sam; … - 2024
The political consequences of economic inequality have been debated in academic and policy circles for centuries. The nature of this relationship seems highly dependent on specific contexts, with empirical studies showing mixed evidence on how economic inequality affects voting and other forms...
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