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We analyze the association between inequality and growth across 72 labor market regions in Sweden 1990-2006. Highly … accurate measures of growth and inequality (gini, Q3, p9075, p5010) are derived from population register data. The regional set … inequality enhances growth by stimulating commuting incentives. …
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conditioning on a variety of country-level factors that may matter for growth and inequality changes. This evidence confirms the … also small relative to the variation in growth in average incomes, implying that the latter accounts for most of the … variation in income growth in the poorest quintiles. These findings hold across most regions and time periods and when …
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(proxied using gender gaps in labor force participation) reduce economic growth. Using most recent data and investigating a … long time period (1960-2000), we update the results of previous studies on education gaps on growth and extend the analysis … growth. The combined 'costs' of education and employment gaps in Middle East and North Africa and South Asia amount …
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light on the dynamic causality relationship and impact channel between economic growth and inequality - using vector error … inequality, renewed attention should be paid to curbing inequality. Those economies experiencing inclusive growth can further … create a proper inequality target as a binding constraint in pursuing economic growth, instead of using a growth-first and …
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This paper develops methodology for nonparametric estimation of a polarization measure due to Anderson (2004) and Anderson, Ge, and Leo (2006) based on kernel estimation techniques. We give the asymptotic distribution theory of our estimator, which in some cases is nonstandard due to a boundary...
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Our hypothesis is that Nigeria is going through a process of economic polarization. An analysis of this type is new for Nigeria; the limited availability of comparable data has hindered an investigation that requires data series not too close in time. The present paper tries to overcome this...
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societal income inequality, poverty, polarization and societal segmentation are examined. What emerges for the Eurozone as an … entity is a four-class, increasingly unequal polarizing structure with income growth in all four classes. With regard to … behaviour. However, in the face of increasing overall Eurozone inequality, constituent nations were becoming increasingly …
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Measurement of inequity in health care delivery has focused on the extent to which health care utilisation is or is not distributed according to need, irrespective of income. Studies using cross-sectional data have proposed various ways of measuring and standardizing for need, but inevitably...
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This paper presents a few of the latest statistics on income poverty, growth, and inequality, and makes a case about …
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We study the interplay of inequality and trust in a dynamic game, in which trust increases efficiency and thus allows … higher growth of the experimental economy in the future. We find that trust is initially high in a treatment starting with …
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