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summarize recent horizontal inequality trends across and within countries and to better understand these changes over time …. Importantly, significant differences exist for different inequality dimensions, i.e. economic, social, political. In terms of data …, few cross-country horizontal inequality datasets are available for research. In general, there is a trade-off between the …
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Inequality and social exclusion receive considerable contemporary policy attention. In the field of international … development, inequality - both vertical (between individuals and households) and horizontal (between groups) - is a core concern … in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Despite considerable attention to horizontal inequality in both research …
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A considerable body of research suggests that horizontal inequality between ethnic groups has major socioeconomic … implications, in particular for peace and economic development. Much of this work focuses on horizontal inequality as an … empirical reasons for treating horizontal inequality as a dependent variable and challenging assumptions of fixity. We first …
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-dependent. This can be derived from maximum entropy considerations. However, the bimodality in the income distributions also implies …
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Although the literature on emission inequality is abundant, this study will differentiate itself by focusing on … measures on emission inequality based on household characteristics as well as decompose it into sources of emission. Employing … emission inequality tends to decline until the middle quintiles but then further increases in expenditure level and worsens …
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programs. Using community and household data from the Second Urban Poverty Project in Indonesia, we find robust evidence for …
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This paper analyses the labour market dynamics in Indonesia from 2001 to 2015 and explores the role of the changing … nature of occupational employment in explaining the rising earnings inequality during the same period. First, we find …-15. Third, using reference influence function regressions, we quantify the extent to which changes in inequality over time can …
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and inequality in Indonesia by applying Theil’s L decomposition (both static and dynamic) to the National Socio … sector has matured. Moreover, the Inverted U Kuznet curve exists in Indonesia. Inequality will increase in tandem with an … and dynamic decomposition of Theils’s L, this study found that (i) the root cause of increasing inequality in Indonesia is …
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Understanding wealth inequality has unique significance in South Africa. The coexistence of extreme poverty and extreme … wealth is starkly visible. Apartheid-era inequality has persisted despite more than 20 years of democracy. Much of the … research on inequality has focused on inequality of income and of opportunities. There is a large gap in understanding wealth …
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differs from the students' distribution. In the general population, three types emerge: an inequality averse, an altruistic … of an inequality averse type in the student population is particularly striking considering the fact that this type …
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