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, for instance, from observations of social ties through networks data. This paper proposes an indicator, the Gini Exposure … index, that allows to ranks all the in-between configurations according to the level of inequality in interaction profiles … they exhibit. The Gini Exposure index extends the well-known inequality Gini coefficient to the multi-variate setting and …
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evaluations can be interpreted as special cases of dissimilarity assessments and discuss relations with concepts of segregation … income. Our aim is to assess the dissimilarity between the patterns of distributions of the different groups. These … evaluations are relevant for the analysis of multi-group segregation, socioeconomic mobility, equalization of opportunity and …
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orderings that satisfy these basic properties. \ We prove that every such ordering is representable by a segregation index that …We define a segregation ordering as a ranking of cities from most segregated to least segregated. \ We propose a set of … basic properties that any reasonable segregation ordering should have. \ We then fully characterize the class of segregation …
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We analyze the impact of (alliance) network exposure on the speed and extent of adoption of the business model as being … exposure rather than social learning, the impact of regulatory effort on patterns of adoption and the role of country clusters …
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We analyze the impact of (alliance) network exposure on the speed and extent of adoption of the business model as being … exposure rather than social learning, the impact of regulatory effort on patterns of adoption and the role of country clusters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752536
Adequate infrastructure has long been viewed as an important factor in economic development. Based on regressions covering 76 advanced and emerging market economies, this paper estimates the impact of infrastructure and investment on income distribution. It finds that better infrastructure, both...
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This paper assesses how pro-poor and inclusive Asia’s recent growth has been, and what factors have been driving these outcomes. It finds that while poverty has fallen across the region over the last two decades, inequality has increased, dampening the impact of growth on poverty reduction. As...
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The paper examines Senegal’s growth performance from the perspective of its povertyreducing and distributional characteristics, and discusses policies that might help make growth more inclusive. The main findings are that poverty has fallen in the last two decades, but poverty reduction has...
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Growth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. This implies three potential sources of pro-poor growth: (a) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (b) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes; and (c) a poverty-reducing pattern of growth in relative incomes. I...
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How does fiscal policy fare in improving the underlying income distribution in Central America? We integrate the data from a number of existing tax and public expenditure studies for the countries in the region and find that the distributional effect of taxation is regressive but small. In...
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