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Poverty Among Ethnic Minorities : The Transition Process, Inequality and Economic Growth

Tuan, Bui Anh; Nguyen, Cuong Viet; Pham, Thu Phuong - 2023

ethnicity group explains more than 90% of the change in total inequality. Income redistribution plays an important role in …

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How Racial Measures Affect the Estimation of Racial Inequality

Rademakers, Robbert; van Hoorn, André - 2022

Although racial inequalities are much researched, studies differ on the specific measure of individuals’ racial identity that they consider. This can affect the comparability of results across studies and, more importantly, the estimation of racial inequality in society. We estimate the extent...

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Poverty and Inequality among Ethnic Groups in Chile

Agostini, Claudio A.; Brown, Phil; Roman, Andrei - 2008

from household surveys that are not representative by ethnicity yield imprecise estimates of poverty and inequality for … studies, however, we use ethnicity rather than geography as a basis for disaggregation. We find that indigenous Chileans are …

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Unveiling the Cosmic Race : Racial Inequalities in Latin America

Woo-Mora, L. Guillermo - 2021

percent in GDP per capita. In the second part of the paper, I use a Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition and control functions to …

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Was the Mandal Commission Right? Living Standard Differences between Backward Classes and Other Social Groups in India

Sen, Kunal - 2014

Affirmative action has been at the heart of public policies towards the socially disadvantaged in India. Compensatory discrimination policies which have been adopted for the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) since independence were recommended for Other Backward Classes (OBC) by...

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Was the Mandal Commission Right? Living Standard Differences between Backward Classes and Other Social Groups in India

Gang, Ira N.; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2021

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A Review of Decomposition of Income Inequality

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

This paper is a review of recent developments of parametric and non-parametric approaches to decompose inequality by subgroups, income sources, causal factors and other unit characteristics. Different methods of decomposing changes in poverty into growth, redistribution, poverty standard and...

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Data Issues and Databases Used in Analysis of Growth, Poverty and Economic Inequality

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international inequality. A discussion of data quality, data consistency,...

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Analysing the effects of tax-benefit reforms on income distribution: A decomposition approach

Bargain, Olivier; Callan, Tim - 2007

composition, employment level, etc.). Then, the decomposition helps to extract an absolute measure of the impact of tax … countries. Finally, the full decomposition allows quantifying the relative role of policy changes compared to all other factors …. We provide an illustration on France and Ireland and check the sensitivity of the results to the decomposition order. …

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Was the mandal commission right? Living standard differences between backward classes and other social groups in India

Gang, Ira N.; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2008

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