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In the energy-rich provinces of Western Canada, inequality rose over the past two decades while poverty declined … inequality aggregates and reduced local poverty. This pattern is preserved but varies across sectors, driving a large local … inequality increase in energy extraction, with smaller rises and reductions in other industries. …
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Recent trends in inequality and poverty across Western Canada, a region known for its energy resources, seem to … correspond to movements in energy prices, with much of the rise in inequality and decline in poverty taking place during the … could potentially alter the aggregates of inequality and poverty, depending on how these gains are distributed across the …
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In the energy-rich region of Western Canada, inequality rose over the past two decades, while poverty declined, begging … evidence shows that, overall, the boom increased inequality and decreased poverty. There are, however, a few notable cases … the question of whether the recent energy boom was a contributing factor. This study uses measures of inequality and …
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A strong positive monotonic relationship between wage inequality and city size developed between 1979 and 2007 in the … inequality in larger locations than in smaller locations. This influence occurred throughout the wage distribution, was most … prevalent during the 1990s, and was mostly driven by more rapid growth in within-skill-group inequality in larger cities. © 2013 …
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elasticities measures, sector bias, and Theil inequality indices were used to identify the sectors that were the source of the …
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We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality …, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005, which is followed by falling inequality thereafter. Using an … inequality decomposition technique, we show that the rising inequality between 1991 and 2005 was, for the most part, driven by …
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This paper measures pay inequality in the EU during the convergence process to the Monetary Union. The decomposability … of declining pay inequality across Europe for this period, which is due mainly to the rising (initially, negative …
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Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient isuues in contemporary China. China's aging population …
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Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient issues in contemporary China. China’s aging population …
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Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient issues in contemporary China. China's aging population …
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