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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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Can a government reduce income inequality by changing the composition of public spending while keeping the total level of expenditure fixed? Using newly assembled data on spending composition for 83 countries across all income groups, this paper shows that reallocating spending toward social...
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In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water and basic sanitation. Our projections, based on...
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Our purpose is to analyze the degree of concentration of household wealth in Mexico during a period of intense economic …
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insights into the role of country-specific shocks in shaping long-run wealth dynamics. This paper presents the first … comprehensive study of wealth and its distribution in Germany since the 19th century. We combine tax and archival data, household … surveys, historical national accounts, and rich lists to analyze the evolution of the German wealth distribution over the long …
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holdings and liabilities of all households within a country. In principle, when household wealth surveys are explicitly …. Thereafter we investigate missing top tail observation from wealth surveys as a source of discrepancy. By fitting a Pareto … underestimation of the top tail of the wealth distribution. Conceptual and generic differences as well as missing top tail …
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holdings and liabilities of all households within a country. In principle, when household wealth surveys are explicitly …. Thereafter we investigate missing top tail observation from wealth surveys as a source of discrepancy. By fitting a Pareto … underestimation of the top tail of the wealth distribution. Conceptual and generic differences as well as missing top tail …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011921042
This paper examines long-term trends in aggregate wealth and inheritance and in their distributions, focusing on … developed economies. A key stylized fact is that wealth is less equally distributed than income. Financial assets predominate … among the wealthy, while owner-occupied housing is crucial for middle groups, so higher stock prices raise wealth inequality …
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insights into the role of country-specific shocks in shaping long-run wealth dynamics. This paper presents the first … comprehensive study of wealth and its distribution in Germany since the 19th century. We combine tax and archival data, household … surveys, historical national accounts, and rich lists to analyze the evolution of the German wealth distribution over the long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013361274
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