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Specific functional forms are often used in economic models of distributions;goodness-of-fit measures are used to assess whether a functional form is appropriatein the light of real-world data. Standard approaches use a distance criterion based onthe EDF, an aggregation of differences in...
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That Britain became more unequal in the last quarter century is well known; the scale of change, less so.At the end of the 1970s, the richest tenth received 21 per cent of total disposable income. This rose to 28-29per cent by 2002-03, as much as the whole of the bottom half. More than half of...
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We analyze a simple and tractable model of occupational choice in the presence of credit marketimperfections. We examine the effect of parameters governing technology and transaction costs, andhistory, in terms of the initial wealth distribution, in determining the long-term wealth...
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This paper examines changes in earnings inequality and mobility between 1978/9 and 2005/6 using a unique dataset that … significant increases in annual earnings inequality for both male and female employees. On most measures this is greater for men …. When wider inequality is measured including periods of no earnings, inequality for men increases and for women it falls as …
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socialpolicies are described and the effects on poverty and inequality are examined.The limitations of a social policy that is …
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public good is pure, any given, positive level of income inequality can beshown to be socially excessive by suitably … redistribution from the rich tothe poor will improve social welfare, regardless of how small inequality is in the status quo... …
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This paper examines the interactions between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), inequality, and growth, both from a …
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reform and devolution for inequality and well-beingin the largest and most diverse city in the United States.The project uses … these data by population andover time, we hope to address questions that are at the coreof current debates about inequality … in the United States:How great is inequality? Does income inequality exaggerate,or reflect, inequality in material and …
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