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This paper provides evidence on the degree and patterns of intergenerational income and educational mobility in urban … Chile. We find intergenerational income elasticities for Greater Santiago in Chile in the range of 0.52 to 0.54. This is … income at the two extremes of the income distribution, which is more accentuated at the top centiles of the distribution. We …
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. Germany is a country of enormous inequality - income, wealth and opportunities are distributed more unequally in Germany than … not a lack of public redistribution of income and wealth, but rather the unusually high inequality of opportunity, through …
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Among all G20 countries, Germany has the lowest level of inequality in terms of disposable income. Germany's tax and … for economic participation and have put a stop to previous trends towards greater income inequality. In order to safeguard …
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A price reversal pattern of ARV drugs was noted across lower and middle income countries in that the lower-income … countries have higher prices relative to higher-income countries based on a 2008-2009 Summary Report by World Health …
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Die voranschreitende Digitalisierung bringt zahlreiche neue Chancen mit sich. Gleichzeitig ergeben sich auch neue Herausforderungen für Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Dieser Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit zwei zentralen Problemen, die in letzter Zeit intensiv diskutiert werden. Zum einen geht es...
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This article considers an economy where risk is insurable, but selection determines the pool of individuals who take it up. First, we demonstrate that the comparative statics of these economies do not necessarily depend on its marginal selection (adverse versus favorable), but rather other...
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Die Zukunftsfähigkeit des gesetzlichen Rentensystems wird durch Familien mit Kindern sichergestellt. Anders als im Steuerrecht existieren in der Sozialversicherung jedoch keine Kinderfreibeträge, sodass Erwerbstätige mit und ohne Kinder die gleichen Rentenversicherungsbeiträge zahlen. Dieser...
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Wage inequality in Portugal has increased over the last thirty years, with two distinct periods. The period from 1984 to the mid-90s witnessed strong increases in both upper- and lower-tail inequality. A shortage of skills combined with skill-biased technological changes were at the core of this...
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Ever-more sophisticated studies on the methodological approach and the conceptual scope of poverty have led to a consensus among scholars on the dynamic characteristic of this phenomenon - in other words, the existence of an in-and-out of privation movement of individuals and families. Within...
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Die Ökonomik der Kriminalität und die darauf aufbauende Ökonomik der Sicherheit konzentrieren sich vorwiegend auf Strafen als Mittel der Politik. Dies ist aus verschiedenen Gründen unklug. Zum einen gibt es eine Reihe von Bedingungen, unter denen Bestrafung nicht wirkt oder die Zahl der...
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