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Labor markets, inequality and poverty in Georgia

Yemtsov, Ruslan - 2001

The labor market is the main channel through which economic growth affects poverty. This paper is the first empirical account of main channels through which the growth in transition period has affected labor market and living standards in Georgia. It is based on both the official aggregate...

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Evidence of returns to schooling in Africa from household surveys : monitoring and restructuring the market for education

Schultz, T. Paul - 2003

Wage-differentials by education of men and women are examined from African household surveys to suggest private wage returns to schooling. It is commonly asserted that returns are highest at primary school levels and decrease at secondary and postsecondary levels, whereas private returns in six...

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The covariance structure of East and West German incomes and its implications for the persistence of poverty and inequality

Biewen, Martin - 2002

persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that … to overall income inequality increased from 20 percent in 1990 to over 70 percent in 1998 and the persistence of poverty …

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Estimation of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality indices from complex survey data

Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen - 2003 - This version: 11 April 2003

inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that this method also greatly simplifies the …

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Trends in income inequality, pro-poor income growth and income mobility

Jenkins, Stephen; Van Kerm, Philippe - 2003

We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor in … Western Germany, more so than in the USA, and inequality did not rise as much. …

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European schemes of social assistance : an empirical analysis of set-ups and distributive impacts

Hölsch, Katja; Kraus, Margit - 2002

This paper analyses the distributive impacts of various regulatory and institutional settings of European schemes of social assistance. For this purpose, two sets of classifications of European schemes of social assistance are introduced that classify the systems according to regulatory...

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Growth, inequality and labor markets in LDCs : a survey : presented at CESifo Venice Summer Institute, Workshop on dissecting globalization, July 2004

Qimḥî, Ayyāl - 2004

This paper surveys the empirical literature on the association between growth on inequality in less developed countries …, with a particular emphasis on labor market inequality. Crosscountry studies failed to find a clear link from growth to … inequality. Country-specific studies that focused on labor market inequality have shown that, with a few exceptions, wage …

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