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the population, and so economic growth. To our knowledge, this is the only possibility for the inequality to be "bought …
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This study analysed the contribution of economic growth and redistribution components to aggregate poverty changes in Ireland from 1987-2005, using the Shapley value decomposition approach. The analysis used the household disposable income data from the Household Budget Survey to calculate...
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presence of inequality, however, it deviates or refracts from the ideal condition. In this paper, I try to measure economic … inequality from the index of refraction. First, I compute such an index for each stratum to evaluate condition in each and then … add all to propose an overall measure of economic inequality, which appears to be a standardised measure of the length of …
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Very little is known about wealth-holding and its distribution in Ireland in the past. Here we employ death duty register data to analyse and identify a sample of the top wealth holders in Ireland between the early 1820s and late 1830s. We examine the sources of their wealth and its regional...
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, an activity that generates inequality in corporate taxation. Here, we examine how profit shifting relates to wage … inequality. Using rich matched employer-employee data from Norway, we find that profit-shifting firms pay higher wages … multinationals meaningfully contributes to wage inequality, both between and within firms. Finally, our back …
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Do workers vary in their ability to work with others? I compare a given worker's productivity in solitary production to their value-added to team production to identify team skills: a worker's contribution to team production above and beyond that given by general skills. The identifying...
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