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Intra-household inequality continues to remain a neglected corner despite renewed focus on income and wealth inequality. Using the LIS micro data, we present evidence that this neglect is Equivalent to ignoring up to a third of total inequality. For a wide range of countries and over four...
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We demonstrate that a rank-preserving transfer from a richer individual to a poorer individual can exacerbate income inequality (when inequality is measured by the Gini coefficient). This happens when individuals' preferences depend negatively not only on work time (effort) but also on low...
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Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 12 is the outgrowth of University of Alabama Poverty and Inequality conference … minimum wage. The Formby-Bishop-Kim paper compares the poverty reducing effects of the minimum wage to two alternative poverty …-Kalb-Scutella compare alternative approaches to measuring poverty and inequality in a discrete hours model. …
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Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 9, Inequality, Welfare and Poverty: Theory and Measurement continues the series … estimation papers address data weighting and equivalent scale issues. The final section presents empirical papers on poverty and …
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