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revenue, which is spent for public goods (including education) and transfers (for poverty reduction). The efficient design of … the education system (by private and public education investments) determines the quality of the human capital stock as … consumption and saving. An efficient tax and transfer system being accompanied by an education system financed in public private …
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, individual occupational choices and education decisions, we show that the distribution of incomes was being affected, on the one … hand, by a decline in average returns to both education and experience, a negative ?growth? effect and immiserizing changes …
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Together with the economic transition, in China the return to education and the skill premium increased; this … inequalities at national, regional and sector level. For this reason, these studies underlined the relevant role of education in … education distribution. In particular, we exploit the Theil index decomposition properties to distinguish between distributive …
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We examine whether there is an inequality of opportunity to achieve higher education, partially explained by … inequality of opportunity gap (mother's education being the largest factor at 30 percent). Interestingly, economic insecurity is …
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Using available data on the distribution of HIV/AIDS prevalence across population groups for four sub-Saharan African countries and transposing this information to household income and expenditure surveys, we simulate the impact of HIV/AIDS on poverty and inequality. We find that the epidemic...
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education and health-care systems work well for most. However, some New Zealanders are stuck on low incomes and face material …. Māori, Pasifika and low-income households have also experienced slower rates of improvement in many health and education … housing and enhance health and education outcomes for disadvantaged groups. These reforms go in the right direction and, in …
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rounds of the Ghana Living Standards Survey. The first-order dominance methodology was used to examine five dimensions of … income poverty are imperative for different locations in Ghana. …
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We study a set of tax reforms introducing a budget-neutral tax shift in Italy, from labour income to consumption taxes. To this end we use a microsimulation model to provide the output with which to estimate the parameters of tax functions in an overlapping-generations computable general...
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In this study we assess the impact of the Working Income Tax Benefit (WITB) on labour supply, GDP and income distribution in Canada, using a general equilibrium microsimulation model. We also estimate labour supply and demand elasticities using survey data to ensure that households’ behaviour...
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South Africa has undergone significant trade liberalization since the end of apartheid. Average protection has fallen while openness has increased. However, economic growth has been insufficient to make inroads into the high unemployment levels. Poverty levels have also risen. The country's...
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