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the 2010 EU-SILC data, we propose a novel methodology that allows assessing the way in which gender gaps in income per …Given the demographic structure of the population of the European countries, this paper examines how gender gaps in … only on the existing gender gaps but also on the way how they are jointly distributed across the income distribution. Using …
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-household inequalities. Besides, by definition, households containing both a female and a male cannot contribute to a gender gap, so gender … differentials cannot be estimated. But, the Sustainable Development Goals have put special emphasis on gender equality along their … targets; therefore, new measures able to capture the gender differences are needed. Consequently, in this paper, we propose an …
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The dissertation contributes to three important issues in development economics, i.e. corruption behavior, the monitoring of development-linked public goods and inequality. The dissertation uniquely combines both empirical and experimental methods. Chapter 1 examines corruption (anti-social...
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Using cross-country and panel regressions, we investigate to what extent gender gaps in education and employment … (proxied using gender gaps in labor force participation) reduce economic growth. Using most recent data and investigating a … to employment gaps using panel data. We find that gender gaps in education and employment significantly reduce economic …
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One of the most frequent critiques of the HDI is that it does not take into account inequality within countries in its three dimensions. We use a simple approach, which allows to compute the three components and the overall HDI for quintiles of the income distribution. This allows to compare the...
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We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality increased in Honduras until 2005, while it was falling in most other Latin American countries. Using annual household surveys, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005,...
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