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Involuntary migration, inequality, and integration : national and subnational influences
Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2019
Across the world, we observe different experiences in terms of inequality between migrant and 'host … inequality, to highlight the role of five key sets of factors in such variation: governmental policies and institutions; labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137942
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China and the United States : different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobility
Weide, Roy van der; Narayan, Ambar - 2019
The United States and China are the world's largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world's economic output. This paper aims to examine whether the two economic giants are also lands of opportunity where resources are allocated in a way that minimizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161622
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Absolute or relative : perceptions of inequality among young adults in Mozambique
Barletta, Giulia; Ferreira, Ines A.; Salvucci, Vincenzo - 2023
Different concepts of inequality lead to different positions in discussions about whether economic growth leads to … increasing inequality. This study investigates how over 1,100 young adults in Mozambique perceive inequality and whether their … believe that inequality in their neighbourhood is too high and that circumstances beyond their control explain why some people …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013549767
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Will economic growth be sufficient to end global poverty? : new projections of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Yusuf, Arief Anshory; Anna, Zuzy; Komarulzaman, Ahmad; … - 2023
In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water and basic sanitation. Our projections, based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014381180
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Who was impacted and how? : the COVID-19 pandemic and the long uneven recovery in India
Jha, Mrinalini; Lahoti, Rahul - 2022
We investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on income levels, poverty, and inequality in both the immediate … than doubled during the lockdown and even after almost two years was slightly higher than before the pandemic. Inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013380686
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Assessing pension-related tax expenditures in South Africa : evidence from the 2016 retirement reform
Redonda, Agustin; Axelson, Christopher - 2021
after the reform, hence exacerbating inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012487927
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Falling tariffs : implications of globalization-induced tariff reductions on firms, workers, and tax revenues
Strecker, Nora Margot; Thunecke, Georg; Zoller-Rydzek, … - 2024
-firm wage inequality, and favours capital owners, while overall government revenues decline. The latter is attributable to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014525777
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The developer's dilemma : a survey of structural transformation and inequality dynamics
Alisjahbana, Armida S.; Kim, Kyunghoon; Sen, Kunal; … - 2020
income inequality. However, broad-based economic growth requires steady or even falling income inequality to maximize the … in order to understand how Kuznets understood the structural transformation and income inequality relationship precisely …, to outline a typology of 'varieties' of structural transformation; and (iii) to discuss the structural transformation-inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012183608
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Concepts of social mobility
Fields, Gary S. - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2019
This paper has two purposes. The first is to define clearly different social mobility concepts and components. The second is to embed these concepts and components into a larger context of social mobility research. The core of the paper develops six mobility concepts and their measures as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161239
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Rekindling governments from within : getting public sector elite officials to support government reform in Brazil
Pinhanez, Monica - 2010
This paper shows how an elite cadre of public sector officials played a key role in the success of administrative reforms in Brazil's state tax administration bureaus in the 1990s. The success of the reforms strengthened public sector bureaucracies and institutions at all government levels,...
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