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"Inequality is the root of social evil," or maybe not? : two stories about inequality and public policy
Corak, Miles - 2017
Income inequality is on the rise, and everyone, from President Obama and Pope Francis to Prince Charles and Standard … is as true in Canada as it is in almost all of the other rich countries where inequality has risen. In this paper I tell … two stories about inequality – one from the perspective of those who feel it is not a problem worth the worry, and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732002
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Spatial divisions of poverty and wealth : does segregation affect educational achievement?
Otero, Gabriel; Carranza, Rafael; Contreras Guajardo, Dante - In: Socio-economic review 21 (2023) 1, pp. 617-641
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014318750
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Structural poverty dynamics in urban South Africa : a mixed-methods investigation
Schotte, Simone - 2019
This paper examines the extent and determinants of structural poverty dynamics in South Africa, focusing on the socio economically disadvantaged urban African population. The quantitative analysis using panel data is triangulated with evidence from a qualitative case study integrating focus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137900
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Measuring Poverty and Inequality from Highly Aggregated Small Area Data: The Changing Fortunes of Latrobe Valley Households
Wright, Jill; Valenzuela, Ma. Rebecca; Chotikapanich, … - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2011
level, inequality and poverty for this region between 1986 and 2006. To circumvent data availability issues, we propose a … were well above other non-metropolitan areas while inequality measures were relatively low. Mean income subsequently … dropped below comparable locations while inequality rose. Although income levels had partially recovered by 2006, inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650289
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How Good is a Map? Putting Small Area Estimation to the Test
DEMOMBYNES, Gabriel; ELBERS, Chris; LANJOUW, Jean O.; … - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 116 (2008) 4, pp. 465-493
produce spatially disaggregated poverty and inequality estimates. To test the method, predicted welfare indicators for a set …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010786978
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Do poor children become poor adults? : Lessons from a cross country comparison of generational earnings mobility
Corak, Miles (contributor) - 2006
A cross country comparison of generational earnings mobility is offered, and the reasons for the degree to which the long run labour market success of children is related to that of their parents is examined. The rich countries differ significantly in the extent to which parental economic status...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003338683
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Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements : A Theory of the Islamic Revival in Egypt
Binzel, Christine - 2013
This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085059
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School Choice and Intergenerational Poverty Trap
Nishimura, Kazuo G. - 2014
This paper formulates a dynamic altruistic model of parental choice of school quality and intergenerational social mobility. It shows that when there are many school qualities, the earnings of children as a function of parental schooling investment is a non-concave function, which leads to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012709953
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The intergenerational dynamics of social inequality : empirical evidence from Europe and the United States
Eberharter, Veronika V. - 2013
Based on nationally representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), and the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we analyze the intergenerational transmission of economic and social (dis-)advantages in Germany, the United States and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010188878
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Rising Community Poverty Reduces Social Mobility for Rural Children
Connor, Dylan S.; Uhl, Johannes H.; Xie, Siqiao; … - 2022
inequality to poverty, we confirm that the fortunes of rural America are far from monolithic. We then show particularly harmful … contribution of community change to social and spatial inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082804