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This paper documents gender disparities in labor earnings for sixty-four countries around the world. Disparities are partially attributed to gender differences in observable socio-demographic and job characteristics. These characteristics are used to match males and females such that gender...
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This paper documents gender disparities in labor earnings for sixty-four countries around the world. Disparities are partially attributed to gender differences in observable socio-demographic and job characteristics. These characteristics are used to match males and females such that gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124473
Current estimates of global poverty vary substantially across studies. In this paper we undertake a sensitivity analysis to highlight the importance of methodological choices in estimating global poverty. We measure global poverty using different data sources, parametric and nonparametric...
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In this paper we argue that modelling the cross-country distribution of per capita income as a mixture distribution provides a natural framework for the detection of convergence clubs. The framework yields tests for the number of component distributions that are likely to have more power than...
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This paper provides a cross-country comparison of how income inequality has evolved within countries at different … levels of development. It uses overlapping nonparametric regression, which allows visual comparisons of inequality both …, some new results on inequality across countries are also discovered …
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We examine the (potentially nonlinear) relationship between inequality and growth using a method which does not require … used (nonlinear) parametric approaches - the economy first expands rapidly with a large decline in inequality, plateaus … when inequality remains relatively stable, and then decreases rapidly with a large increase in inequality. This novel …
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While standard political economy theories suggest a moderating effect of democratization on income inequality … first, that prevailing ideology may be an important determinant of inequality and, second, that the democratization effect … income groups, hence democratization may have only a negligible effect on inequality. On the other hand, in societies where …
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implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … distribution has become more relatively equal due to falling inter-country relative inequality, and that by some measures global … "inequality convergence" with previously more equal countries becoming less equal over time and the obverse. We provide support …
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Since Aristotle, a vast literature has suggested that economic inequality has important political consequences. Higher … inequality is thought to increase demand for government income redistribution in democracies and to discourage democratization … how high inequality is, how it has been changing, and where they fit in the income distribution. Using a variety of large …
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