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inequality among females in terms of schooling distribution in Turkey. Our results suggest that occupation of the household head …
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East Asia and Latin America have diverged in several dimensions in the past three decades. This paper compares household saving behavior in two countries in each region (Mexico, Peru, Thailand and Taiwan). We make four contributions. First, we provide the first comparisons of savings in these...
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Change in income inequality in Taiwan from 1964 to 1995 is sensitive to how household incomes are adjusted for … the widely noted increase in income inequality from 1980 to 1995, and calls into question whether income inequality … demographic transition has contributed only slightly to increasing income inequality across all ages. The entry of women into the …
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combination, on GDP and inequality. We focus on three dimensions of financial inclusion: access (determined by the size of … inclusion, GDP, inequality, and the distribution of gains and losses. …
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Given that well-being is a concave function of income, inequality is inefficient from a utilitarian perspective. This …
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We study how the distribution of income among members of society, and income inequality in particular, affects social … income, and decreases (increases) with income inequality if and only if environmental goods and manufactured goods are … income inequality. We derive adjustment factors for benefit transfer to control for differences in income distributions …
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wages tend to increase (i) unemployment, (ii) functional income inequality, and (iii) personal income inequality. We further …
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In this paper, we estimate the recent evolution of global interpersonal inequality and examine the effect of omitted … top incomes on the level and direction of global inequality. We propose a methodology to estimate the truncation point of … individuals in hous6000 unehold surveys generate a downward bias in global inequality estimates that ranges between 15 per cent …
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