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-oriented economy. We offer a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia, using multiple rounds of the Russian … inequality, with the latter being mostly caused by pro-poor growth rather than redistribution. The poorest tercile experienced a … growth rate that was more than 10 times that of the richest tercile, leading to less long-term inequality than short …
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and 2020 and other data sources, we find within-province inequality to be much larger than between-province inequality …. Furthermore, this inequality gap is rising over time. Despite the country's fast poverty reduction, the poor were increasingly … inequality levels. We also find greater inequality to have negative impact on economic growth and poverty reduction. Our results …
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and 2020 and other data sources, we find within-province inequality to be much larger than between-province inequality …. Furthermore, this inequality gap is rising over time. Despite the country's fast poverty reduction, the poor were increasingly … inequality levels. We also find greater inequality to have negative impact on economic growth and poverty reduction. Our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013540743
This paper proposes a novel assessment of the Kuznets curve for an underdeveloped country engaging in rapid late development. We mobilize new long-run data for Brazil, combining surveys, administrative records, and national accounts statistics, to compute macro-consistent income shares and other...
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continues to work in the same mode and with the same wages, only 4% faced a deterioration of the situation in the labor market …
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As the pace of digitalization and automation accelerates globally, and more disruptive innovations in machine learning, artificial intelligence and robotics are expected, new data sources and measurement tools are needed to complement existing valuable statistics and administrative data. This is...
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2010 and 2016, we analyse the relationships between productivity and wages. At odds with neoclassical theory of marginal … productivity of labor, we find that two thirds of firms insufficiently raised wages given observed productivity growth. Employing … the distributions. Most of the documented dynamics contributed not only to the divergence of productivity and wages but …
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While Latin America has historically been considered a region of very high inequality, the performance of most Latin … American countries in terms of reduction of income inequality has been remarkable good in the first decade of this century …. Given that those improvements took place in a context of rising inequality in most of the world, the evolution of income …
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In this paper education simultaneously affects growth and income inequality. More education does not necessarily … decrease inequality when the latter is assessed by the Lorenz dominance criterion. Increases in education first increase and … then decrease growth as well as income inequality, when measured by the Gini coefficient. There is no clear functional …
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distribution has become more relatively equal due to falling inter-country relative inequality, and that by some measures global … world and five decades, we present a portrait of the changing global distribution of consumption and income and discuss its … implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the …
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