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interregional income inequality. Decomposition of GINI into Concentration coefficients allows us to discuss more arguably how to …
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the spatial inequality. The evidence from the analyzed data indicates that there is a tendency to rising inequality …
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This article gives various estimates of intergenerational earnings mobility by applying different earning periods, age brackets, and earning components. The methodology enables us to investigate how sensitive results are to different delimitations and, thereby, to make more accurate...
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This paper examines the impact of access to microfinance on consumption inequality using panel data of 6080 households … access to microcredit exacerbates consumption inequality both at the slum-level and the household-level. Further … decomposition of inequality indices shows that this difference in consumption inequality is predominantly driven by expenditure on …
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fluctuation and equally-distributed equivalent poverty gaps approaches for comparison. The latter approach introduces inequality …
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household survey data (mostly panel), including subjective attitudinal questions. Using over one million observations, it … uncovers a divide, in the perception of income inequality, between “old” -low mobility- European countries on the one hand, and …
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inequality and income comparisons. It reviews the various channels that relate income distribution and subjective well-being. It …-being is generally found to be negative, with higher societal inequality being associated with lower subjective well … inequality derives from self-centred motives, such as risk-aversion and prospects for upward mobility (POUM). Both stem from a …
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household survey data (mostly panel), including subjective attitudinal questions. Using over one million observations, it …
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This paper re-assesses the panel (unit root test) evidence for PPP on four monthly data sets. We discuss and illustrate … that commonly-used first generation panel unit root tests are inappropriate for PPP analysis since they are constructed for … cross-sectionally uncorrelated panels. Given that real exchange rate panel data sets are – almost by construction – highly …
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