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Middle class in Africa: Determinants and Consequences

Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Asongu, Simplice A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This study complements the inclusive growth literature by examining the determinants and consequences of the middle class in a continent where economic growth has been relatively high. The empirical evidence is based on a sample of 33 African countries for a 2010 cross-sectional study. OLS,...

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Work, Family or State? From wage inequalities to standard of living inequalities and inwork poverty in a European cross-country perspective

Allegre, Guillaume - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2012

Our aim is to explore how wages inequalities translate into standard of living inequalities in different European countries. Wage inequalities are measured at the individual level. They can be increased or reduced by two institutions: the household and the tax-benefit system. Standards of living...

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Work, Family or State? From wage inequalities to standard of living inequalities and inwork poverty in a European cross-country perspective

Allegre, Guillaume - Department of Economics, Sciences économiques - 2012

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Measuring long-term inequality of opportunity

Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne; Peragine, Vito - In: Journal of Public Economics 95 (2011) 3, pp. 193-204

In this paper, we introduce a new family of rank-dependent measures of inequality and social welfare consistent with the equality of opportunity (EOp) principle. The proposed framework can be used to measure long-term as well as short-term EOp, depending on whether we let permanent income or...

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The ins and outs of top income mobility

Aaberge, Rolf; Atkinson, Anthony B.; Modalsli, Jørgen - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2013

This paper is concerned with the question of whether top income earners are permanently there or only temporarily receive the highest incomes. How much mobility is there at the top of the income distribution, and how has mobility changed over time? The paper makes both a methodological and an...

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Income mobility as an equalizer of permanent income

Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2014

Do market-orientated economies with relatively large cross-sectional levels of inequality have higher income mobility and therefore less permanent inequality? To answer this question, we introduce a formal representation of income mobility as an equalizer of permanent income. The proposed...

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A theory for ranking distribution functions

Aaberge, Rolf; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2013

When is one distribution (of income, consumption, or some other economic variable) more equal or better than another? This question has proven difficult to answer in situations where distribution functions intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker criteria...

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Inequality, poverty and quality of institutions: which freedom channels of globalization matter for Africa?

Asongu, Simplice A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

which freedoms channels are poverty and inequality mitigated? With the instrumentality of formal institutions: (1) de jure … (poverty). Hence, economic freedom does not stop the wealthy from growing wealthier, but at the same time provides for … conditions that mitigate poverty. The findings broadly show that, despite the substantially documented negative incidences of …

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How do institutions matter in the income-equalizing effect of mobile phone penetration?

Asongu, Simplice A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

-specific and microeconomic survey-based approaches is on 52 African countries. ‘Mobile phone’-oriented poverty reduction channels …

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The impact of mobile phone penetration on African inequality

Asongu, Simplice A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

’-oriented poverty reduction channels are discussed. …

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