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Who got what, then and now? : a fifty year overview from the Global Consumption and Income Project
Jayadev, Arjun; Lahoti, Rahul; Reddy, Sanjay - 2015 - This version: May 8, 2015
implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516605
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Measuring welfare, inequality and poverty with ordinal variables
Silber, Jacques; Yalonetzky, Gastón - 2021
addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650402
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Distributional and welfare effects of replacing monetary benefits with iniversal basic income in Spain
Badenes Plá, Nuria; Gambau-Suelves, Borja; Navas … - 2019
This papers quantifies the redistributive effects on progressivity, poverty and welfare, that would occur if the … poverty reducing as the one in force (or more in some dimensions), and a generator of greater welfare. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008734
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Inequality and poverty when effort matters
Ravallion, Martin - In: Econometrics : open access journal 5 (2017) 4, pp. 1-19
On the presumption that poorer people tend to work less, it is often claimed that standard measures of inequality and poverty are overestimates. The paper points to a number of reasons to question this claim. It is shown that, while the labor supplies of American adults have a positive income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011781941
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Poverty in the Czech Republic : unemployment, pensions, and regional differences
Kolář, Daniel - 2024
The Czech Republic has experienced a remarkable decline in the unemployment rate but not in relative poverty. I address this and other facts by analysing the evolution of absolute and relative poverty over the 2004-2021 period. I first document a remarkable decline in absolute poverty in poorer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015069594
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Inequality within countries is falling : underreporting robust estimates of world poverty, inequality, and the global distribution of income
Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier; … - 2024
Household surveys suffer from persistent and growing underreporting. We propose a novel procedure to adjust reported survey incomes for underreporting by estimating a model of misreporting whose main parameter of interest is the elasticity of regional national accounts income to regional survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015069787
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Microsimulation of impacts of tax and transfer in Viet Nam : feasibility study
Nguyen, Duong Anh; Minh Binh Tran; Anh Mai Le - 2016
This paper assesses the feasibility of simulating the distributional impacts produced by various tax and transfer … instruments in Viet Nam. Viet Nam's system of tax and transfer policies underwent frequent changes, in terms of diversity and … survey data shows the wide-ranging feasibility of simulating tax and benefit instruments, though more details are available …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484460
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Relative deprivation and individual well-being : low status and a feeling of relative deprivation are detrimental to health and happiness
Chen, Xi - 2015
People who are unable to maintain the same standard of living as others around them experience a sense of relative deprivation that has been shown to reduce feelings of well-being. Relative deprivation reflects conditions of worsening relative poverty despite striking reductions in absolute...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430756
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‘There is No Middle Class in this Oblast. There are Rich and Poor’ : Economic and Social Policy Trade-Offs in the Russian Regions
Remington, Thomas F. - 2014
governments seek to develop entrepreneurship while preserving social welfare obligations and improving compensation in the public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066758
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Who got what, then and now? A fifty year overview from the Global Consumption and Income Project
Jayadev, Arjun; Lahoti, Rahul; Reddy, Sanjay G. - 2015
implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516222