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Wealth distribution, peasant production and poverty traps in African smallholder agriculture

Hoogeveen, Johannes - 1999

A model is developed for peasant households in land abundant areas who choose between two technologies for land preparation: a manual one and one using draught animals. For draught a minimum number of animals is required so that a technological non convexity exists. It follows that certain...

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The social pay gap across occupations : survey and experimental evidence

Bublitz, Elisabeth; Regner, Tobias - 2016

, regardless of (non-)random assignment to social jobs and the level of income inequality, individuals in social jobs are only …

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Changes in welfare with a heterogeneous workforce : the case of Peru

Robles, Adrian; Robles, Marcos - 2016

of these changes has been less important in reducing income inequality. The main driving force of reduced income … inequality has been the fall in returns to education, which at the same time has been one of the important factors to …

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Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality : lessons from Latin America

Neidhöfer, Guido - 2015

Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents' and children's economic well … higher inequality in childhood has a negative effect on intergenerational mobility as adults. Furthermore, the influence of …

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Chronicle of a deceleration foretold : income inequality in Latin America in the 2010s

Gasparini, Leonardo; Cruces, Guillermo; Tornarolli, Leopoldo - 2015

signs of a deceleration in the pace of inequality reduction in Latin America. This paper argues that the deceleration is the … result of two set of reasons. First, several of the driving factors of the fall in inequality in the 2000s have lost strength … early 2010s, making further reductions in inequality more difficult. …

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Perceived social position and income inequality : do they move together? : evidence from Europe and the United States

Ricci, Chiara Assunta - 2016

investigate perceived social position and income inequality in six different countries between the 1990's and 2000's in order to … inequality in perceptions. Consequently, the dynamics of perceptions can help explain, for example, the empirical evidence … with increasing inequality detected in some countries. …

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Falling behind or catching up? : cross-country evidence in intra-generational wages mobility through pseudo-panels

Lilla, Marco - 2016

The paper aims to encompass evidence on wage distribution and inequality with micro-mobility measures for several …

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Vulnerability to poverty : Tajikistan during and after the global financial crisis

Gang, Ira N.; Gatskova, Kseniia; Landon-Lane, John S.; … - 2016

We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. Our strategy is to estimate a Markov transition probability...

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Inequality-minimization with a given public budget

König, Johannes; Schröder, Carsten - 2016

We solve the problem of a social planner who seeks to minimize inequality via transfers with a fixed public budget in a …

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Ergodic inequality

Norman, Thomas W. L. - In: Games 7 (2016) 3, pp. 1-23

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