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Evolution of Inequality in Nigeria: A Tale of Falling Inequality, Rising Poverty and Regional Heterogeneity

Odozi, John; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2022

Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only … the upper class has benefited from economic growth in Nigeria overtime. The disconnect between these findings and … research. First we consider if inequality decreased in Nigeria between 2010 and 2018. We then examine how changes in inequality …

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Evolution of Inequality in Nigeria: A Tale of Falling Inequality, Rising Poverty and Regional Heterogeneity

Chiwuzulum Odozi, John; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2022

Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only … the upper class has benefited from economic growth in Nigeria over time. The disconnect between these findings and … research. First, we consider if inequality decreased in Nigeria between 2010 and 2018. We then explore how changes in …

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Evolution of Inequality in Nigeria: a Tale of Falling Inequality, Rising Poverty, and Regional Heterogeneity

Odozi, John Chiwuzulum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - In: Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy 6 (2023) 4, pp. 297-309

Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only … the upper class has benefited from economic growth in Nigeria over time. The disconnect between these findings and … research. First, we consider if inequality decreased in Nigeria between 2010 and 2018. We then examine how changes in …

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Within and between gender disparities in income and education benefits from democracy

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2007

There is data evidence that welfare has improved post democracy in Nigeria. However, the distribution or concentration …, across and within gender, post democracy in Nigeria is explored. I make use of simple econometric tools to test two null … in Nigeria. Second, there are no within gender disparities of the shift to democracy on income and returns to education …

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Revisiting Baumol's Disease: Structural Change, Productivity Slowdown and Income Inequality

Hartwig, Jochen; Krämer, Hagen M. - In: Intereconomics 58 (2023) 6, pp. 320-325

The growing importance of services has led to significant structural change in advancedeconomies, with the service sector now accounting for the largest share of employment indeveloped countries. In his seminal model of the so-called cost disease of services, WilliamBaumol noted that the prices...

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Factor shares and income inequality - Empirical evidence from Germany 2002 - 2008

Adler, Martin; Schmid, Kai Daniel - 2012

We examine the interplay between changes in the functional distribution of income and the distribution of market income among households. We use micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel as well as macro data from the German Federal Statistical Office from 2002 to 2008. We categorize and...

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Polarization, growth and social policy in the case of Israel, 1997 - 2008

García-Fernándeza, Rosa María; Gottlieb, Daniel; … - 2012

In this paper we apply two statistical models to the measurement of polarization to Israeli income data over the past decade in order to empirically detect income classes as sub-populations of incomes concentrated around an optimal number of poles. The statistical models compared are a...

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Polarization, growth and social policy in the case of Israel, 1997-2008

García-Fernández, Rosa María; Gottlieb, Daniel; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-15, pp. 1-40

In this paper we study income polarization by first comparing the efficiency of two statistical models to identify the number of poles in the income distribution empirically. The statistical models used are a multi-resolution analysis (MRA) and a log-normal approach (LNA). We then apply the...

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Inequality and aggregate savings in the neoclassical growth model

Foellmi, Reto - 2010

Within the context of the neoclassical growth model I investigate the implications of (initial) endowment inequality when the rich have a higher marginal savings rate than the poor. More unequal societies grow faster in the transition process, and therefore exhibit a higher speed of convergence....

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Mass versus exclusive goods, and formal-sector employment

Foellmi, Reto; Zweimüller, Josef - 2010

We explore how the underemployment problem of less-developed economies is related to income inequality. Our crucial assumption is that consumers have non-homothetic preferences over differentiated products of formal-sector goods and thus that inequality affects the composition of aggregate...

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