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Urbanization, inequality, and poverty in the People's Republic of China
Zhang, Yuan - 2016
, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and … provides further empirical evidence on the role of urbanization and government policies in urban poverty. Several conclusions … can be drawn from. First, urbanization has a significant effect on reducing both poverty of rural residents and poverty of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522047
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Changes in inequality within countries after 1990
Gradín, Carlos - 2020
In this paper, we use the World Income Inequality Database to assess the main trends in inequality within countries since around 1990. We cope with the heterogeneity in the original information (regarding the measure of resources, equivalence scale, etc.) by focusing on the trends rather than on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012285431
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Changes in welfare with a heterogeneous workforce : the case of Peru
Robles, Adrian; Robles, Marcos - 2016
finds that the main factor contributing to poverty reduction has been individuals' changes in labor earnings, and the role … constraining the period's remarkable progress in poverty reduction and expansion of the middle class. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457826
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Essays on equality of opportunity
Hufe, Paul - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012484012
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Explaining cross-state earnings inequality differentials in India : an RIF decomposition approach
Gradín, Carlos - 2018
Despite the relevance of geographical disparities in India, earnings inequality occurs mostly within states, but with a broad range of variability in its levels. We investigate the sources of such variability using RIF decompositions of the inequality gaps between most populous states and India....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011806506
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Social Distance between Workers : An Application to Italian Geographic Areas
D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2011
This paper is concerned with the measurement of social distance, clustering, or polarization between workers of a given society. This concept is fundamentally different from that of inequality and thus cannot be measured by any Lorenz consistent index. Similarly, it cannot be additively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014129490
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Behavioral effects of a federal minimum wage and income inequality in Germany : conference paper
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2013
receive less attention. Yet, a popular argument for a federal minimum wage in Germany is that it will prevent in-work poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341614
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Labor market and income effects of a legal minimum wage in Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2010
In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the basis of a microsimulation model which accounts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003962149
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Labor market and income effects of a legal minimum wage in Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2010
In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the basis of a microsimulation model which accounts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003962265
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Labor market and income effects of a legal minimum wage in Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2010
In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the basis of a microsimulation model which accounts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003962944