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Based on tax records data from Ecuador, we analyse gender differences in top income groups from 2008 to 2017. Ecuador … labour market. While we observe a significant increase in the share of women at the top of the income distribution during … this period, women remain underrepresented in top income groups, at 38.7 per cent in the top 10 per cent income group and …
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credit and to boost income from farm and non-farm enterprises. There are strong gender effects: men are several times more … differences between party members and others. Results suggest that party membership has a moderate positive effect on income, on … the order of seven per cent, and a large positive effect on subjective well-being, even after controlling for income …
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in production, processing, and exports in the fruit and oilseed-to-edible oils value chains in the context of recent …
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' production and welfare in Tanzania as well as the factors that influence agricultural production in the country. The analysis is … that the input subsidy programme resulted in an initial increase in maize and rice production but not in the long run and … only in a few regions. In addition, there was a decrease in total production in the southern region and the programme had …
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A common finding in the empirical civil war literature is that population size and per capita income are highly … capita income having a significant average effect on civil war risk in a world sample breaks down once country-and year … population size and per capita income on civil war risk that is robust to the use of country- and year-fixed effects and …
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This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth … deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the outcomes were compared to the incidence of income poverty. The analyses reveal … areas; and differences in regional rankings of deprivation and income poverty. Distinct policies for child deprivation and …
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explaining the sustained income growth Africa has experienced since 1995. The paper also shows that the effects of income per …
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Using the 2004-05 India Human Development Survey data, we estimate and decompose the earnings of household businesses owned by historically marginalized social groups known as Scheduled Castes and Tribes (SCSTs), and non-SCSTs across the earnings distribution. We find clear differences in...
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The aim of this study is to evaluate the feasibility to implement a tax and benefit microsimulation model for Ecuador using EUROMOD as an interface. We first present a detailed description of the main components of the tax and benefit system in Ecuador for year 2014. We then describe available...
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The quality of data on employment income is explored using Tanzanian and Zambian household survey datasets. The extent … of missing and implausible income data is assessed and four different methods are applied to impute missing or …
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