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Who got what, then and now? : a fifty year overview from the Global Consumption and Income Project
Jayadev, Arjun; Lahoti, Rahul; Reddy, Sanjay - 2015 - This version: May 8, 2015
implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516605
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Measuring welfare, inequality and poverty with ordinal variables
Silber, Jacques; Yalonetzky, Gastón - 2021
addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650402
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Distributional and welfare effects of replacing monetary benefits with iniversal basic income in Spain
Badenes Plá, Nuria; Gambau-Suelves, Borja; Navas … - 2019
This papers quantifies the redistributive effects on progressivity, poverty and welfare, that would occur if the … poverty reducing as the one in force (or more in some dimensions), and a generator of greater welfare. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008734
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Inequality and poverty when effort matters
Ravallion, Martin - In: Econometrics : open access journal 5 (2017) 4, pp. 1-19
On the presumption that poorer people tend to work less, it is often claimed that standard measures of inequality and poverty are overestimates. The paper points to a number of reasons to question this claim. It is shown that, while the labor supplies of American adults have a positive income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011781941
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Poverty in the Czech Republic : unemployment, pensions, and regional differences
Kolář, Daniel - 2024
The Czech Republic has experienced a remarkable decline in the unemployment rate but not in relative poverty. I address this and other facts by analysing the evolution of absolute and relative poverty over the 2004-2021 period. I first document a remarkable decline in absolute poverty in poorer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015069594
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Inequality within countries is falling : underreporting robust estimates of world poverty, inequality, and the global distribution of income
Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier; … - 2024
Household surveys suffer from persistent and growing underreporting. We propose a novel procedure to adjust reported survey incomes for underreporting by estimating a model of misreporting whose main parameter of interest is the elasticity of regional national accounts income to regional survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015069787
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Microsimulation of impacts of tax and transfer in Viet Nam : feasibility study
Nguyen, Duong Anh; Minh Binh Tran; Anh Mai Le - 2016
This paper assesses the feasibility of simulating the distributional impacts produced by various tax and transfer … instruments in Viet Nam. Viet Nam's system of tax and transfer policies underwent frequent changes, in terms of diversity and … survey data shows the wide-ranging feasibility of simulating tax and benefit instruments, though more details are available …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484460
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Relative deprivation and individual well-being : low status and a feeling of relative deprivation are detrimental to health and happiness
Chen, Xi - 2015
People who are unable to maintain the same standard of living as others around them experience a sense of relative deprivation that has been shown to reduce feelings of well-being. Relative deprivation reflects conditions of worsening relative poverty despite striking reductions in absolute...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430756
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‘There is No Middle Class in this Oblast. There are Rich and Poor’ : Economic and Social Policy Trade-Offs in the Russian Regions
Remington, Thomas F. - 2014
governments seek to develop entrepreneurship while preserving social welfare obligations and improving compensation in the public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066758
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Globalization and the role of public transfers in redistributing income in Latin America and the Caribbean
Skoufias, Emmanuel; Lindert, Kathy; Shapiro, Joseph - 2009
This paper focuses on measuring the extent to which publicly subsidized transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean redistribute income. The redistributive power of 56 transfers in eight countries is measured by their simulated impacts on poverty and inequality, and by their distributional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273489