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This paper aims to deepen our understanding of the determinants of income inequality in Uganda. Over the past 10 years …, Uganda experienced gradual and sustained economic growth and poverty reduction. The benefits of growth, however, are not … contribution of each income source to overall inequality; (ii) Decomposition of consumption expenditure into subgroups in order to …
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There has been an increasing demand for involving stakeholders in the development of sustainable civil infrastructure systems. It has been acknowledged that one key element of a project is stakeholder involvement. As such, failure to successfully involve the stakeholders of an infrastructure...
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poverty trap‟, „dual economy‟ and „balanced growth‟. The model is then capable of explaining the observed diversity in growth … complete adoption of more productive technologies. The issue of increasing income inequality in the process of technology … adoption opens up another direction for research. Specifically increasing inequality implies that distributive conflicts may …
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, evidenced by ad hoc assumptions of cooperative wealth maximization. By integrating the underlying structure of inequality with …
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Surprisingly little is known about the impact of resource booms on income inequality in resource rich countries. This … explain the time path of inequality following a resource boom. Under plausible conditions, we find that income inequality will … initial impact of the boom on inequality disappears. Using panel cointegration methodology for a sample of 90 countries …
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Recent interest has been stimulated by the growth of income inequality in most developed countries during the 1980s and … development. This article uses a measure of income inequality derived from taxation statistics and a recently proposed method for … testing long-run Granger non-causality to examine the key determinants of Australia's inequality for the years 1970–2001. In …
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This paper revisits the inequality-growth relationship accounting for sectoral differences and focusing on US counties … depends on regional income inequality and a number of control variables. Spatial econometrics techniques are used to account … inequality for the Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting sector and the Real Estate, Rental and Leasing sector. However …
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This paper focuses on the causes of increased wage inequality in OECD countries in recent years and its decomposition …. In particular, if the observed wage inequality response to price and technology shocks reflects a short-run response in … observed increases in inequality is substantially altered relative to a long-run factors mobile world. This conclusion applies …
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inequality within the firm, which is found to be independent of the firm's hierarchical organization of workers, and only depends …
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show that income inequality of reference group of husbands in age-regional cross sections can be a predictor of their wives …
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