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Programme-135: addressing poverty and inequality in Viet Nam
Tung Duc Phung; Thanh Minh Pham - 2022
Viet Nam has achieved remarkable economic growth and poverty reduction since the Doi Moi. However, ethnic minorities … standards. The programme addresses typical causes of poverty among ethnic minorities and inequality between these groups and the … provide an overview of the programme and examine the drivers of its success in reducing poverty and bridging the majority …
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Childrenś opportunities in Germany : an application using multidimensional measures
Bartels, Charlotte; Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2016
poverty indices using SOEP data from 1991-2012. We distinguish between parental and publicly provided childcare, which is an … increasingly important in-kind benefit in Germany. We find that both multidimensional inequality and poverty declined as expanded …
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Children's opportunities in german : an application using multidimensional measures
Bartels, Charlotte; Stockhausen, Maximilian - In: German economic review 18 (2017) 3, pp. 327-376
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Reflection: beyond Capital
Bowes, Kim - In: Capital in Classical Antiquity, (pp. 339-354). 2022
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The impact of reducing the pension generosity on inequality and schooling
Sanchez-Romero, Miguel; Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Alexia - 2019
In this paper we investigate the impact of a reduction in the pension replacement rate on the schooling choice and on inequality. We develop an overlapping generations model in which individuals differ by their life expectancy and in the cost of attending schooling. Individuals optimally choose...
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Structural reforms and income distribution
Causa, Orsetta; De Serres, Alain; Ruiz, Nicolas - 2015
This paper provides new empirical evidence on the effects of structural policies on household disposable incomes at different income levels. More specifically, it investigates the extent to which structural policies have differential long-run impacts on GDP per capita and on household incomes at...
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Inflation variability across Australian households : implications for inequality and indexation policy
Van Kints, Marcel; Breunig, Robert - 2020
We examine the consumer price inflation experiences of Australian households across the income distribution using Australian Bureau of Statistics data and prices and methodology from the national consumer price index. Across the period 2011 – 2018, we find that the lowest income households...
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Lessons from Denmark about inequality and social mobility
Heckman, James J.; Landersø, Rasmus - 2021
Many American policy analysts point to Denmark as a model welfare state with low levels of income inequality and high levels of income mobility across generations. It has in place many social policies now advocated for adoption in the U.S. Despite generous Danish social policies, family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012486467
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Inequality of well-being and isoelastic equivalence scales
Ebert, Udo; Moyes, Patrick - 2011
Equivalence scales are typically designed for adjusting households' incomes for differences in size and composition. On the one hand, there is evidence that the way differences in needs across households are taken into account has a significant impact on the assessment of inequality in the...
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Demography at the edge : remote human populations in developed nations
Carson, Dean Bradley (contributor); Carson, Dean (ed.) - 2011
, generational change, temporariness and the relative strength of internal and external ties, Demography at the Edge provides a …
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