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The role of the labour market
Joumard, Isabelle; Londoño Vélez, Juliana - 2013
Income inequality in Colombia has declined since the early 2000s but remains very high by international standards. Income dispersion largely originates from the labour market, which is characterised by a still high unemployment rate, a pervasive informal sector and a wide wage dispersion...
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Poverty in Uruguay (1989-97)
Rossi, Maximo - 2002
The purpose of this paper will be to study the evolution of inequality and poverty in Uruguay between 1989 and 1997. We … found that from 1991 there is an increase wage inequality in Uruguay and poverty changed little, decreased until 1993 and … then increased. Near a half of poor people in Uruguay are children and old people contribute very little to poverty …
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Chapter 15. Poverty and Aging
Marchand, J.; Smeeding, T. - In: Handbook of the economics of population aging : Volume 1, (pp. 905-950). 2016
This chapter explores the relationship between poverty and aging, in terms of its measurement and trends, as well as … measurement addresses both the definition of poverty and its aggregation over various age groups. The trends highlight a … significant reduction in poverty among the elderly and a gradual increase in poverty among children and working age individuals …
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Cato's Project on Poverty and Inequality in California : Final Report
Tanner, Michael - 2022
economic impact.Yet if COVID-19 exacerbated and exposed the state’s poverty problems, it was not the cause of them. Even before …
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What We Can Learn from Selected, Unmatched Data : Measuring Internet Inequality in Chicago
Saxon, James; Black, Dan - 2022
By integrating a “big” dataset of Internet Speedtest® measurements from Ookla® with data on household incomes from the American Community Survey (ACS), we attempt to measure Internet speeds across income tiers. In the Ookla data, each measurement is technically rigorous but the sample...
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The politics of inequality and redistribution in Latin America's post-adjustment era
Roberts, Kenneth M. - 2012
Declining social and economic inequalities since the late 1990s coincided with several basic shifts in Latin America's political landscape, including an electoral turn to the left and a revival of social mobilization from below. These shifts helped to 'repoliticize' inequality and return...
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Unequal inequalities : do progressive taxes reduce income inequality?
Duncan, Denvil; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2012
This paper analyzes the effect of changes in structural progressivity of national income tax systems on observed and actual income inequality. Using several unique measures of progressivity over the 1981-2005 period for a large panel of countries, we find that progressivity reduces inequality in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629615
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Dividing the pie in Brazil : income distribution, social policies and the new middle class
Arnold, Jens Matthias; Jalles, João Tovar - 2014
Brazil has made remarkable progress in reducing poverty and inequality. This reduction is explained by strong growth … effectiveness of social expenditures for reducing poverty and inequality. This Working Paper relates to the 2013 OECD Economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010231401
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Unequal Inequalities : Do Progressive Taxes Reduce Income Inequality?
Duncan, Denvil - 2012
This paper analyzes the effect of changes in structural progressivity of national income tax systems on observed and actual income inequality. Using several unique measures of progressivity over the 1981-2005 period for a large panel of countries, we find that progressivity reduces inequality in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099109
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Income Inequality and Government Transfers in Mexico
Lambert, Frederic - 2019
We analyze microdata from Mexico's survey on household income and expenditures (ENIGH) to study the evolution of income inequality in Mexico over 2004-16, identify its sources, and investigate how it was affected by government social policy. We find evidence of only a small decline in inequality...
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