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After a decade of strong progress toward the goal of reducing the high levels of income disparities, there are clear …
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American countries in terms of reduction of income inequality has been remarkable good in the first decade of this century …. Given that those improvements took place in a context of rising inequality in most of the world, the evolution of income … database of comparable microdata from household surveys, this article updates the evidence on the trends of income inequality …
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rate. Second, we use UN population projections on population size and the associated age-distribution to predict income …Population forecasts indicate that the world is facing massive demographic changes during the 21st century. This does … not only involve the development of the total global population, but (more importantly) will also affect the population …
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We explore the long-run relationship between income risk, inequality, and the macroeconomy in an overlapping …-generations model in which households face uncertain streams of labor income and returns on their savings. To manage those risks …' labor income and returns on their savings generally accentuates households' demand for risk-free assets and the compensation …
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This paper summarizes statistics on the key aspects of the distribution of earnings levels and earnings changes using administrative (social security) data from Italy between 1985 and 2016. During the time covered by our data, earnings inequality and earnings volatility increased, while earnings...
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The average white male born in 1900 earned 2.6 times more labor income over their lifetime than the average Black male … in Black-white welfare gaps between the 1900 and 1920 birth cohorts, even as cross-sectional Black-white income gaps for … cohorts as gaps in Black-white life expectancy and income remained stable and large. …
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population replacement rate in many developed countries; the evolution of income and fertility distributions across developing …; the relation between income growth and income and fertility distributions; and the relevance of human capital in …
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the dynamic evolution of income and fertility distributions and their interdependencies over three endogenous phases of … dynamic behavior of inequalities in fertility, educational attainments, and three endogenous income inequality measures … - family-income inequality, income-group inequality, and the Gini coefficient. In this context, we also reexamine the Kuznets …
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Seen in historical perspective the main economic predicaments of the present world (such as poverty, inequality, backwardness) appear in a somewhat different light than in many current discussions, especially by sociologists, radical economists and political scientists. In the present paper the...
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redistribution from the richest 10 percent to the poorest 40 percent of the population, the poverty rate would still be around 10 …
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