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This paper estimates the distribution of personal wealth in South Africa by combining tax microdata, household surveys …, and macroeconomic balance sheet statistics. We systematically compare estimates of the wealth distribution obtained by … direct measurement of net worth, rescaling of reported wealth to balance sheet totals, and capitalization of income flows. We …
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education and wealth increasing or decreasing in the 20-year interval between 1991 and 2010?'. Horizontal inequality in … other sub-national regions. However, Tanzanian society is becoming more unequal in wealth with rising wealth inequality …
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This paper is the first to compare global trends in income and wealth inequality this century. It is based on large … income and wealth microdata samples designed to be representative of all countries in the world. Measured by the Gini … one half - of wealth inequality. Broadly similar results are found for different years and different inequality indices …
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individuals' fairness perceptions regarding wealth inequality. It begins from the premise that prominent measures of inequality …'s contribution highlights the importance of 'intuitive' measures of political matters such as wealth inequality. It further indicates …
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Davies et al. (2008, 2011) provided the first estimates of the global distribution of wealth, using 2000 as the … learned about trends in the level and distribution of global wealth for the period 2000-14. Finally, the paper discusses the …
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The paper attempts to examine the extent to which the ILO-supported projects have contributed to women's economic empowerment and well-being i.e., from a gender perspective. The paper provides the ILO's perspectives on gender dimensions of employment promotion (involving income generation and...
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We study the labour market dynamics of men and women in El Salvador and Nicaragua, focusing on the factors that help men and women move into an advantageous labour market state from an unfavourable state. We consider 'advantageous' states to be formal salaried employees and self-employed workers...
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We study the causal effect of motherhood on labour market outcomes in Latin America by adopting an event study approach around the birth of the first child based on panel data from national household surveys for Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay. Our main contributions are: (i) providing new and...
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and mapping indicators of horizontal wealth inequality along geographic regions and ethnolinguistic identities. Using … average household wealth indicators, there is a strong suggestion of increasing group inequalities between 1997 and 2017 …, the differences in average wealth between groups, if perceived, may feed grievances. They should be better understood so …
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standard economic indicators of income/consumption and wealth, the paper briefly reviews distributions of selected non …
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