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inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups … income ; inequality ; poverty …
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This paper explores trends in inequality and poverty using both market and after-tax and transfer income in the period … during and after the Great Recession (through 2011). Using market income (or wages), inequality and poverty rose sharply … poverty increase was muted. Tax and transfer policies lowered inequality and poverty, but those policies were not equal across …
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inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159252
This paper introduces a new comprehensive panel of annual state-level income inequality measures spanning the postwar period 1945-2004. For many states, the share of income held by the top decile experienced a prolonged period of stability after World War II, followed by a substantial increase...
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The slow recovery following the 2008/2009 recession has led to renewed interest in the question whether deep recessions lower real GDP permanently or whether we can expect a rebound to earlier trend levels. Using a recent quantile autoregression unit root test we check whether shocks to real GDP...
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The slow recovery following the 2008/2009 recession has led to renewed interest in the question whether deep recessions lower real GDP permanently or whether we can expect a rebound to earlier trend levels. Using a recent quantile autoregression unit root test we check whether shocks to real GDP...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009682078
In this study we analyze the effects of corruption on income inequality and poverty. Our analysis advances the existing … data. We find robust evidence that an increase in corruption increases income inequality and poverty. -- Corruption … literature in four ways. First, instead of using corruption indices assembled by various investment risk services, we use an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008772371
In this study we analyze the effects of corruption on income inequality and poverty. Our analysis advances the existing … data. We find robust evidence that an increase in corruption increases income inequality and poverty … literature in four ways. First, instead of using corruption indices assembled by various investment risk services, we use an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012708855
Income inequality and relative poverty in the United States are among the highest in the OECD and have substantially … of growth. The present paper analyses the causes of US income inequality and relative poverty in an OECD context … poverty through better targeting of the truly needy while reducing administrative complexity …
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