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poverty despite striking reductions in absolute poverty. The effects of relative deprivation explain why average happiness has …
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The aim of the article is to assess the impact of taxes on poverty and inequality in Ukraine and provide … recommendations on how taxation should be used to address problems of inequality and poverty. The research methodology is based on a … taxation and social spending on inequality and poverty in individual countries. The dataset consists of data from the World …
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This article analyzes the behavioral effects of cash transfer programs when jobless people need to have access to a minimum consumption level. Our model reconciles recent evidence about negligible or favorable effects of cash transfers on job-finding rates and the more standard view of negative...
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The study investigates whether economic growth in the Balkan countries was pro-poor in the most recent period. We also try to establish to what extent various measures of pro-poorness of economic growth produce consistent and comparable results. Firstly, concepts of pro-poor growth are defined...
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. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional … GDP per capita in the continent of Africa. -- stochastic processes ; poverty ; inequality ; wellbeing measurement …
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point is afforded by the status of a "focus-axiom" in the measurement of poverty. "Focus" requires that a measure of poverty … poverty indices advanced in the literature satisfy an "income-focus" but not a "population-focus" axiom. This, it is argued in … the present paper, makes for an incoherent underlying conception of poverty. The paper provides examples of poverty …
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. It is also a procedure for testing whether poverty comparisons can be made over classes of indices that incorporate both … absolute and relative views of poverty. Besides being robust to whether pro-poor judgements should be absolute or relative, the … ranges of absolute and relative poverty lines. The test is applied to distributional changes in five middle- and four lower …
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The study examines the relationship between growth-inequality-poverty (GIP) triangle and crime rate under the premises … that there is (i) no/flat relationship between per capita income and crime rate; (ii) U-shaped relationship between poverty … decrease crime rate. Crime rate substantially increases income inequality while health expenditures decrease poverty headcount …
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Background: Since the latter part of the 20th Century, countries have been particularly challenged by the trade-off that exists between delivering generous welfare provisions and strong economic growth. Such dynamics have stimulated a need to better understand the causes of income inequality so...
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With capital‐skill complementarity, the secular decline in the price of capital equipment due to equipment‐specific technological progress (ESTP) keeps pushing up the demand for skilled relative to unskilled labor and raising the skill premium. This paper quantitatively characterizes the...
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