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This work studies trends in income distributions and inequality in the European Union using data from the European … slight increase in inequality which is however not significant at conventional levels. …
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This work studies trends in income distributions and inequality in the European Union using data from the European … slight increase in inequality which is however not significant at conventional levels. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119805
Does the association between household characteristics and household CO2 emissions differ for different areas such as home energy, transport, indirect and total emissions in the UK? Specific types of households might be more likely to have high emissions in some areas than in others and thus be...
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, while inequality tends to rise monotonically. Bonus caps and income taxes can help restore balance in agents' incentives and …
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high levels of inequality. Decomposition analysis shows that poverty reduction in Namibia is largely driven by growth in … mean incomes rather than redistribution. Even so, there have been important changes in inequality, especially between … different social groups, as educational attainment has replaced ethnicity as the main determinant of inequality between groups. …
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This paper studies how heterogeneity in income dynamics affects the POUM hypothesis (the idea that poor people do not support high level of redistribution because they hope to be rich in the future). We consider a setting where individuals evaluate their expected future income using both their...
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This study analysed the contribution of economic growth and redistribution components to aggregate poverty changes in Ireland from 1987-2005, using the Shapley value decomposition approach. The analysis used the household disposable income data from the Household Budget Survey to calculate...
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inequality of income and expenditure over that period. The paper calculates Lorenz and Generalised Lorenz curves and also the … examines the composition of changes in inequality of income over the period. …
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This paper presents an analysis of bureaucratic corruption, income inequality and economic development. The analysis is … model predicts a positive relationship between corruption and inequality, and a negative relationship between corruption and …
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(DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … incomes from assets in the DHS, and is able to generate new information on poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …
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