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Inequality, Poverty, and Social Protection in Bulgaria
Hallaert, Jean-Jacques - 2020
Absolute poverty has dropped markedly in Bulgaria but income inequality has increased substantially in the aftermath of …
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Policies for inclusive and sustainable growth in Indonesia
Vujanovic, Petar - 2015
Indonesia has a very good record of poverty reduction, having halved its incidence over the past two decades …. Nevertheless, almost 30 million people still live below the national poverty line, mostly in rural areas and in certain provinces …. In order to make further progress in lifting these people out of poverty and economic vulnerability, policy needs to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399569
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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials
Kerr, William - 2012
In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112981
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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials
Kerr, William - 2016
In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013006909
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The state and income inequality in Brazil
Souza, Marcelo Medeiros Coelho de; Souza, Pedro H. G. F. de - 2015
Using a factor decomposition of the Gini coefficient we measure the contribution to inequality of direct monetary income flows to and from the Brazilian State. The income flows from the State include public servants' earnings, Social Security pensions, unemployment benefits and Social Assistance...
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Intergenerational disadvantage : learning about equal opportunity from social assistance receipt
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Dahmann, Sarah Christina; … - 2017
We use variation in the extent of generational persistence across social assistance payments to shed light on the factors leading to intergenerational disadvantage. Our administrative data come from the Australian social security system and provide us with detailed social assistance trajectories...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737503
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Stigma in Welfare Programs
Celhay, Pablo A.; Meyer, Bruce; Mittag, Nikolas - 2022
Stigma of welfare participation is important for policy and survey design, because it deters program take-up and increases misreporting. Stigma is also relevant to the literature on social image concerns, yet empirical evidence is scant because stigma is difficult to empirically identify. We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014079312
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Crisis, Inequality and Social Insurance
Almeida, Vanda - 2021
In this paper I present the ideas, preliminary results and future steps of a long term project aimed at investigating the distributional consequences of aggregate crises and the role of inequality and social insurance in shaping aggregate activity in times of crisis. For that, I develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013228491
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Digital financial inclusion and income inequality in WAEMU : what causality for what heterogeneity?
Soro, Kolotioloman; Senou, Melain Modeste - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-17
In developing countries, economic inequality is attracting considerable attention. Many factors including financial exclusion are key in explaining income gap in developing countries. This paper examines the effect of access to financial services through digital technologies on income...
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Inclusion amid ethnic inequality : insights from Brazil's social protection system
Sugiyama, Natasha Borges - 2022
poverty and wellbeing. This framing is reflective of Brazil's national narrative on race relations and the idea that class and … employment status have been the most salient barriers to social welfare protections. Brazil's widely well-regarded anti-poverty … systems offers important lessons on how poverty relief can further human development and enhance agency. Future reformers can …
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