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Income inequality and income distribution have always represented a foremost topic with important economic, political … and social implications. The large income disparities both at a national and global level present nowadays an even greater … materialize. In recent decades, the large income gaps still remained: the poorest fifth of the world population possessed in 2009 …
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sets from Household Income Surverys of 1988 and 1995, the author examines poverty distribution among various localities and …
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This paper summarizes the main results on changes in poverty and inequality in Argentina and the world in the last three decades, and discusses the progresses made by the Economics field in that period toward a better understanding of the distributional issues.
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This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality … have shaped Argentina's income distribution: deep macroeconomic crisis and periods of openness and integration. The sizable … particular severity of the income distribution changes in Argentina. This paper was prepared for the Labor Markets and …
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effects of the economic inequality definitions on location and dispersion of the income distribution. Log-normal, log …We present three generalized, empirical, economic inequality definitions for the empirical dominance of the income … distribution of Population 1 over that of Population 2 with respect to their n-person economy in terms of a general transformation …
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for the economic theory and economies of the world today. Wage gaps widened and household income inequality increased in a …
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The ECB recently published the first results of the euro area Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) and a report on the methodologies applied (ECB, 2013a and 2013b). The fact that the HFCS results vary considerably across the euro area gives rise to questions regarding their...
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In the energy-rich provinces of Western Canada, inequality rose over the past two decades while poverty declined, begging the question of whether the recent energy boom was a contributing factor. This study uses local labor market variation in energy extraction intensity to identify these...
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capital wealth distribution in the United States as indicated by data taken from the 2004 Survey of Consumer Finances. To the …
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