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Two decades of structural transformation and dynamics of income equality in indonesia
Dartanto, Teguh; Zheng Wen Yuan, Edith; Sofiyandi, Yusuf - 2017
and inequality in Indonesia by applying Theil’s L decomposition (both static and dynamic) to the National Socio … been seen in other developing countries, Indonesia has experienced an agriculture–service transition, before the industry … sector has matured. Moreover, the Inverted U Kuznet curve exists in Indonesia. Inequality will increase in tandem with an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011757612
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Educational Attainment and Inequality in India
Agrawal, Tushar - 2010
This paper examines the educational attainment and educational inequality for the Indian population aged 15 and above. Using the three recent rounds of nationally representative household survey data carried out by the National Sample Survey Organization of India, we compute average years of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014195878
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Education Inequalities in Latin America and the Caribbean
Fernández, Raquel; Pagés, Carmen; Székely, Miguel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Education is a crucial asset for a country's economic prospects and for its inhabitants. In addition to its direct impact on growth via the accumulation of human capital, it is a critical ingredient in producing an informed citizenry, enhancing their ability to obtain and exert human and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486218
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Mortality, Human Capital and Persistent Inequality
Chakraborty, Shankha; Das, Mausumi - 2003
Available evidence suggests high intergenerational correlation of economic status, and persistent disparities in health status between the rich and the poor. This paper proposes a novel mechanism linking the two. We introduce health human capital into a two-period overlapping generations model....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014075839
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Growing richer and taller: Explaining Change in the Distribution of Child Nutritional Status during Vietnam’s Economic Boom
O'Donnell, Owen; Nicolás, Ángel López; van … - 2007
Over a five-year period in the 1990s Vietnam experienced annual economic growth of more than 8% and a decrease of 15 points in the proportion of children chronically malnourished (stunted). We estimate the extent to which changes in the distribution of child nutritional status can be explained...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325368
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Growing richer and taller : explaining change in the distribution of child nutritional status during Vietnam's economic boom
O'Donnell, Owen; López Nicolás, Ángel; Van … - 2006
Over a five-year period in the 1990s Vietnam experienced annual economic growth of more than 8% and a decrease of 15 points in the proportion of children chronically malnourished (stunted). We estimate the extent to which changes in the distribution of child nutritional status can be explained...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011350368
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Growing Richer and Taller : Explaining Change in the Distribution of Child Nutritional Status During Vietnam's Economic Boom
O'Donnell, Owen A.; Lopez Nicolas, Angel; van … - 2007
Over a five-year period in the 1990s Vietnam experienced annual economic growth of more than 8% and a decrease of 15 points in the proportion of children chronically malnourished (stunted). We estimate the extent to which changes in the distribution of child nutritional status can be explained...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014053357
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Income, income inequality and health: Evidence from China
Li, Hongbin; Zhu, Yi - 2006
This paper tests using survey data from China whether individual health is associated with income and community-level income inequality. Although poor health and high inequality are key features of many developing countries, most of the earlier literature has drawn on data from developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323515
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Polarization, growth and social policy in the case of Israel, 1997 - 2008
García-Fernándeza, Rosa María; Gottlieb, Daniel; … - 2012
In this paper we apply two statistical models to the measurement of polarization to Israeli income data over the past decade in order to empirically detect income classes as sub-populations of incomes concentrated around an optimal number of poles. The statistical models compared are a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010310638
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Polarization, growth and social policy in the case of Israel, 1997-2008
García-Fernández, Rosa María; Gottlieb, Daniel; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-15, pp. 1-40
In this paper we study income polarization by first comparing the efficiency of two statistical models to identify the number of poles in the income distribution empirically. The statistical models used are a multi-resolution analysis (MRA) and a log-normal approach (LNA). We then apply the...
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