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The wave of upbeat stories on the developing world's emerging middle class has reinvigorated a debate on how social class in general and the middle class in particular ought to be defined and empirically measured. With the aim of adding clarity to this debate, this dissertation provides a...
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over time. In this paper we show that this dynamic element - the risk of falling into (deeper) poverty and the chances of … available National Income Dynamics Study data to provide a thorough and up-to-date analysis of poverty dynamics in South Africa … between 2008 and 2017. This analysis focuses on the correlates of transitions into and out of poverty, and investigates how …
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Scholars have sought to quantify the extent of inequality which is inherited from past generations in multiple ways …, including a large body of work on intergenerational mobility and inequality of opportunity. This paper makes two contributions … inequality of opportunity fit within a general framework which involves, as a first step, a calculation of the extent to which …
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; Kuznets ratio; Theil inequality index, mean logarithmic deviation, and the Atkinson index. In the study settlements are either …
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relationship between poverty, inequality and growth. The paper also investigates patterns of and trends in poverty and income …This paper describes and analyses current poverty and income distribution in South Africa, with a central concern the … redistribution. Wage inequality, deeply rooted in South Africa's history, plays a central role in overall income distribution, and …
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poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …Empirical evidence on distributional preferences shows that people do not judge inequality as problematic per se but … inequality do not adequately reflect these normative preferences. In this paper, we address this shortcoming by developing a new …
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fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty … debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se …
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fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty … debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se …
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distribution during this period of low GDP growth. As a result, poverty, especially extreme poverty, increased. Inequality also … increased, mainly due to a jump in inequality among the African population. Even among subgroups of the population that … experienced healthy consumption growth, such as the Coloureds, the rate of poverty reduction was low because the distributional …
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