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understanding horizontal inequality and indigenous politics. This paper presents new analysis of survey data, allowing for … outcomes, and a broad trend towards greater equality. Earnings gaps have been reduced by, among other factors, improved … educational outcomes. Ethnic groups also show distinct patterns of wages and wage gaps, and there is evidence of a 'sticky floor …
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administrative tax microdata to describe earnings inequality in South Africa. I estimate Gini coefficients, the variance of log … earnings, and various percentile ratios to document changes in earnings inequality. I show that earnings inequality estimates …-firm differences to overall earnings inequality. …
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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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more concerned with development, and establishes the degree of inequality at the time of independence in the late 1950s and … early 1960s. What was the colonial legacy? How far did colonial inequality persist post-independence? …
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In this paper, we estimate the recent evolution of global interpersonal inequality and examine the effect of omitted … top incomes on the level and direction of global inequality. We propose a methodology to estimate the truncation point of … individuals in hous6000 unehold surveys generate a downward bias in global inequality estimates that ranges between 15 per cent …
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to changes at the extremes of the distribution might obscure inequality’s actual dimension, and thus help perpetuate it … v.2, could function as a complementary indicator for the measurement of inequality. …
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-benefit policies stabilized earnings losses. We then evaluate the impact on income-based poverty and inequality and the contribution of … inequality, and somewhat larger effects on the poverty gap due to lower relative earnings losses of the poor population at the …
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South Africa exhibits extreme levels of income inequality and is ranked as one of the most unequal countries in the … world. In order to measure these severe levels of inequality, it matters how we account for the different parts of the … decrease in overall inequality of taxable income in South Africa between 2011 and 2014, the two years under observation …
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In this paper we explore the links between international migration and income inequality. After presenting a simple … confirm that inequality-in both origin and destination countries-significantly shapes individual choices about where, and … whether, to migrate. We find that the effect of inequality at both ends of migration corridors is heterogeneous across …
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A substantial amount of research has been conducted examining inequality in South Africa using multiple data sources … estimate income and consumption inequality in South Africa between 1993 and 2017, and we discuss the comparability of income … and consumption measures across surveys. We compare our estimates of inequality to those in the World Income Inequality …
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