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It can be argued that just as there are different kinds of literacy, there are different kinds of illiteracy. A proximate illiterate, i.e. an illiterate who has easy access to a literate person, is clearly better off than someone without such access. The existing literature that takes account of...
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This paper describes the transmission of income inequality into consumption inequality and in so doing investigates the …
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Do preferences for income inequality differ systematically between the post-socialist countries of Central and Eastern … address this question. In particular, we examine whether attitudes to inequality differ between East and West even after the … inequality and other determinants of attitudes are taken into account. These results do not seem to be driven by a recent change …
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In this paper we investigate the impact of macroeconomic variables on income inequality. Using data from the German … impact of the macroeconomy on inequality. In fact, the dominating driver of inequality seems to be a time trend. Nevertheless …, estimating a vector-error-correction-model allows us to gauge the effect the financial crisis has on inequality. Assuming that …
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This paper contributes with empirical findings to the research on structural inequality and geographic concentration of … inequality of EPO patenting and inventor location has decreased significantly within the last two decades for most technology … fields. In this respect, our quantitative approach clearly depicts dispersion tendencies and decreasing inequality, although …
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approach to inequality measurement when defining pro-poor growth. With a relative approach to pro-poor growth it is assumed … that inequality does not to vary when all incomes are multiplied by a constant whereas, with an absolute approach to pro …-poor growth, inequality is supposed not to vary when an equal sum is added to all incomes. The empirical illustration covers the …
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-biased technological progress and use cross-country panel data on inequality and GDP to test these ideas. A one-year increase in the level …
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In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to … analogue of the objective income concept and includes objective income inequality as a special case. The paper introduces a … method to decompose Income Satisfaction Inequality according to the contributions from variables such as income, education …
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This paper examines the differences in welfare, as measured by per capita expenditure (PCE), between social groups in rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically disadvantaged groups - Scheduled Castes (SCs) and...
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The paper studies the effects of international remittances on poverty and inequality in Ethiopia using an urban … household survey from 2004. In order to identify the effects of remittances on poverty and inequality, counterfactual … consumption in the hypothetical case of no remittance is estimated in a selection corrected estimation framework. Inequality and …
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