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. Stabilizing their baseline income can make workers more tolerant of inequality. We present evidence of this attitude in the UK by … Survey, we show that workers that benefited from the NMW program became relatively more tolerant of inequality and more …
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of these changes has been less important in reducing income inequality. The main driving force of reduced income … inequality has been the fall in returns to education, which at the same time has been one of the important factors to …
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, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and …
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Equality of opportunity is a principle of justice that is built on two fundamental ideas. On the one hand, outcome differences across individuals are unacceptable if they are rooted in factors that are beyond individual control. Examples of such circumstance characteristics are the biological...
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Despite an improvement in overall macroeconomic performance in Costa Rica, income inequality has risen and is currently … significant progress in reducing inequality. This study analyses the drivers of inequality in Costa Rica by decomposing the Gini … coefficient by income source, finding that the main contributor to inequality in Costa Rica is labour income. In the period 2010 …
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This paper examines the wage gap between migrants and non-migrants in large cities in Vietnam. It finds that migrants receive substantially lower wages than non-migrants. The wage gap tends to be larger for older migrants. However, once observed demographic characteristics of workers are...
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. Calibrating the model to the United States, we find that health inequality is an important source of lifetime earnings inequality … words, the SSDI program is an important contributor to lifetime earnings inequality. Despite this, we show that it is ex …
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Despite the relevance of geographical disparities in India, earnings inequality occurs mostly within states, but with a … inequality gaps between most populous states and India. Our results point to substantial compositional effects associated with …
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society. This concept is fundamentally different from that of inequality and thus cannot be measured by any Lorenz consistent …
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determine the optimal degree of inequality and rate of per capita income growth from a model which integrates Okun's law with a …
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