In this paper, we use the death file from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate the relationship between … county-level unemployment rates and mortality risk. After partialling out important confounding factors including baseline … with higher mortality risk for working-aged men. In particular, we show that a one percentage point increase in the …

can also produce unexpected negative consequences for per capita GDP in both low-income – high-mortality and high-income … – low-mortality economies. Moreover, under myopic expectations, the government health expenditure can generate nonmonotonic … fluctuations in low mortality societies …

per capita incomes, poverty, or inequality. At the macro level this can be seen at the off-setting effects of population … household size on poverty and inequality appears to have fallen in recent years, particularly in rural areas. Thus demographic …

changes contributed to the observed reduction in income poverty and inequality we apply microeconometric decompositions to … associated to a non-negligible reduction in inequality and poverty in the region. The main channel was straightforward: lower …, especially among women, which contributed to the reduction of poverty and inequality in most countries, although the size of this …

In this paper, we use the World Income Inequality Database to assess the main trends in inequality within countries … period of time. These trends are complemented with information for inequality in income and wealth from other sources, paying … only a few exceptions, we compare the same inequality concept obtained from the same source in two different years in each …

Over the years, money-metric measures of inequality such as the Gini coefficient and the Palma Ratio, as frequently … understanding of the extent and nature of inequality. From these measures, we know that inequality has been rising in Ghana despite … high and stable growth and a decline in the poverty rate. Although rising, however, inequality is low in Ghana compared …