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Income inequality is on the rise, and everyone, from President Obama and Pope Francis to Prince Charles and Standard … is as true in Canada as it is in almost all of the other rich countries where inequality has risen. In this paper I tell … two stories about inequality – one from the perspective of those who feel it is not a problem worth the worry, and the …
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This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the … empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the … forces that determine inequality change, focusing on factor accumulation and structural change. Next it considers the …
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-benefit policies stabilized earnings losses. We then evaluate the impact on income-based poverty and inequality and the contribution of … inequality, and somewhat larger effects on the poverty gap due to lower relative earnings losses of the poor population at the …
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Spanish regions using EUROMOD. Our results show that the IMV reduces inequality and poverty - general and extreme - for all … level, although this power has not been as effective as it was expected in reducing inequality. This work also simulates the … effects on inequality and poverty that the elimination of current RMI and the introduction of the new IMV would generate …
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of these measures on income-based poverty and inequality. We find notable reductions in disposable incomes, concentrated …
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the differences across the income distribution and impacts on measures of poverty and inequality. The paper also evaluates …
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Spanish regions using EUROMOD. Our results show that the IMV reduces inequality and poverty - general and extreme - for all … level, although this power has not been as effective as it was expected in reducing inequality. This work also simulates the … effects on inequality and poverty that the elimination of current RMI and the introduction of the new IMV would generate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013205350
-benefit policies stabilized earnings losses. We then evaluate the impact on income-based poverty and inequality and the contribution of … inequality, and somewhat larger effects on the poverty gap due to lower relative earnings losses of the poor population at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705346
information on incomes starting in the mid-1980s. Results show that increased inequality is mainly in pre-governmental income and … increasing labor market inequality is further intensified by decreasing redistributive activities of private households. Intra …-household earnings analyses reveal that despite rising female labor market participation, intra-household inequality has remained …
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of these measures on income-based poverty and inequality. We find notable reductions in disposable incomes, concentrated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477520