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This paper has four main objectives: (1) to monitor the rise of poverty and income inequality during the first decade of Russian transition; (2 to analyze the performance of the welfare state in reducing poverty and income inequality; (3) to identify the most vulnerable groups of transition; and...
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The authors analyze to what extent and how the tax burden should be shifted towards top income earners in order to reduce income inequality. Starting from Lambert and Aronson (Inequality decomposition analysis and the Gini coefficient revisited 1993) and Alvaredo (A note on the relationship...
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The authors analyze to what extent and how the tax burden should be shifted towards top income earners in order to reduce income inequality. Starting from Lambert and Aronson (Inequality decomposition analysis and the Gini coefficient revisited 1993) and Alvaredo (A note on the relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110760
The evolution of income distribution over two centuries is an attractive topic because it allows one to test the inverse U-curve hypothesis using long series instead of cross-section data. In Section 1 the distribution trends in countries where global data are available, is considered, that is...
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livestock to adapt to a severe typhoon.We, therefore, make use of a natural experiment coming from the strong typhoon Ketsana in …. While they decrease the crops-planted area, they tend to purchase more livestock in the short term and in the medium term …. Our paper not only indicates the adjustment to the crop-livestock system as an adaptation strategy to a severe typhoon …
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Despite its relevance for agricultural production, biodiversity and landscape aesthetics, grazing livestock is rarely … means of a discrete choice experiment. The results indicate that there is a general willingness to pay (WTP) for livestock …
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livestock to adapt to a severe typhoon. We, therefore, make use of a natural experiment coming from the strong typhoon Ketsana … typhoon. While they decrease the area planted for staple crops, i.e., rice and cassava, they tend to purchase more livestock … livestock raising, which emphasizes the contraction of crop farming in the aftermath of this type of event. …
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In this paper we focus on the timing of marriages of women, whose marriages are associated with bride wealth payments, which are transfers from (the family of) the groom to the bride's family. Unmarried daughters could therefore be considered assets who, at times of need, can be cashed in. We...
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In this paper we focus on the timing of marriages of women, whose marriages are associated with bride wealth payments, which are transfers from (the family of) the groom to the bride's family. Unmarried daughters could therefore be considered assets who, at times of need, can be cashed in. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014070887
-Niño-induced large-scale drought on smallholder farmers’ livestock holding and milk production using nationally representative data … collected before and after the drought. We show that drought reduced milk production and livestock holding by 25.8% and 8 ….4%, respectively. Heterogenous impact analysis suggests that asset-rich households sold livestock and financed feed purchases, which …
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