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Who is Deprived? Who Feels Deprived? Labor Deprivation, Youth and Gender in Morocco

Serajuddin, Umar - 2017

question of gender and youth deprivation in the context of the Moroccan labor market. They find that the reference group (the …

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Gender Differences in Time Use : Allocating Time between the Market and the Household

Rubiano Matulevich, Eliana Carolina - 2019

Important progress toward gender equality has been made in the past decades, but inequalities linked to gender norms … of previous studies by analyzing gender differences in the allocation of time among market work and unpaid domestic work … that women specialize in unpaid domestic and care work and men specialize in market work. The paper employs propensity …

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The State of Jobs in Post-Conflict Areas of Sri Lanka

Newhouse, David Locke - 2018

Although Sri Lanka has made significant progress in social and economic development over the past decade, the Northern and Eastern provinces that faced the brunt of the decades-long conflict remain disproportionately poor. To understand the labor market dimensions of poverty in these regions,...

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Decentralization and Redistribution : Irrigation Reform in Pakistan's Indus Basin

Jacoby, Hanan G. - 2018

Does decentralizing the allocation of public resources reduce rent-seeking and improve equity? This paper studies a governance reform in Pakistan's vast Indus Basin irrigation system. Using canal discharge measurements across all of Punjab province, the analysis finds that water theft increased...

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The Role of Social Ties in Factor Allocation

Beck, Ulrik - 2018

This paper investigates whether social structure helps or hinders factor allocation using unusually rich data from The Gambia. Evidence indicates that land available for cultivation is allocated unequally across households; and that factor transfers are more common between neighbors, co-ethnics,...

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Rental Regulation and its Consequences on Measures of Well-Being in the Arab Republic of Egypt

Lara Ibarra, Gabriel - 2017

The paper delves into the implications of a failure to account for rental regulation in the measurement of households' welfare, poverty, and inequality when using household surveys. Exploiting previously unavailable data for the Egyptian case, the paper illustrates the long-lasting distortions...

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Global Inequality in a More Educated World

Ahmed, S. Amer - 2017

In developing countries, younger and better-educated cohorts are entering the workforce. This developing world-led education wave is altering the skill composition of the global labor supply, and impacting income distribution, at the national and global levels. This paper analyzes how this...

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Approximating Income Distribution Dynamics Using Aggregate Data

Kraay, Aart - 2017

This paper proposes a methodology to approximate individual income distribution dynamics using only time series data on aggregate moments of the income distribution. Under the assumption that individual incomes follow a lognormal autoregressive process, this paper shows that the evolution over...

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Prices, Engel Curves, and Time-Space Deflation : Impacts on Poverty and Inequality in Vietnam

Gibson, John - 2017

Many developing countries lack spatially disaggregated price data. Some analysts use "no-price" methods by using a food Engel curve to derive the deflator as that needed for nominally similar households to have equal food shares in all regions and time periods. This method cannot be tested in...

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Perceptions of Distributive Justice in Latin America During a Period of Falling Inequality

Reyes, German Jeremias - 2017

This paper explores perceptions of distributive justice in Latin America during the 2000s and their relationship with income inequality. In line with the fall in income inequality in the region, the paper documents a widespread, although modest, decrease in the share of the population that...

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