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white manufacturing and non-manufacturing workers. Its coefficient was insignificant for black workers. Gender and marital ….0%). Controlling for manufacturing reduced the gender wage gap and the returns to marriage for men. These findings suggest greater … these would be necessary to offset job loss and reduce inequality and poverty in Detroit. The extent to which blacks will …
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We estimate the gender wage gap for Africans in post-apartheid South Africa over the 2001 to 2007 period. Separate male … and female earnings equations yields no significant decline in the conditional wage gap, regardless of whether we correct … self-select into certain types of jobs, the impact of gender-based pre-labour market factors as well as omitted variable …
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The scope of this paper is to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Gini index by providing the original formulae. Corrado Gini introduced his index for the first time in a 1912 book published in Italian under the name of “Variabilità e Mutabilità” (Variability and Mutability). This...
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Inequality is a common concern, strongly perceived by people as well as by governments that redistribute resources … analysis of the inequality determinants in Italy using the Shapley value decomposition on pseudo-panel data and taking into … account the geographical specificity of inequality. …
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Does income inequality increase political backlash against European and global integration? This paper reports research … inequality tends to increase anti-globalization positions of parties, net of pro-globalization positions, an effect that does not …
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Obtaining variances for the plug-in estimator of the Gini coefficient for inequality has preoccupied researchers for … design common with data frequently used in inequality studies. Under a complex survey sampling design, we prove that …
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coefficient, but is exogenous to any behavioral response. Analyzing the effect of this redistribution index on inequality, I find … personal income. From a political economy perspective, I also find some evidence that more inequality leads states to implement … redistribution and inequality. …
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This paper uses the Shapley Value decomposition technique to assess the factors behind the rise of inequality in China …. It finds that, in many ways, inequality may have been an inevitable by-product of China’s investment and export …-led growth model. Between Chinese households, we find that the most important factors explaining income inequality are location …
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inequality real phenomena we proposed to be verified three conditions. Finally, we also proved by examples that each of these …
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