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Inequality in Latin America unambiguously declined in the 2000s. The Gini coefficient fell in 14 of the 17 countries … main explanations for the decline in inequality: a reduction in hourly labor income inequality, and more robust and … labor income inequality. The causes behind the decline in returns to schooling, however, have not been unambiguously …
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Fiscal policy can change poverty and inequality substantially or slightly depending on the government's redistributive … and human capital accumulation, as well as with reducing inequality. The Commitment to Equity Assessment (CEQ) evaluates … independent evaluations. CEQ relies on inequality, poverty and tax and benefit incidence analyses. …
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Fiscal policy can change poverty and inequality substantially or little depending on the government's redistributive … and human capital accumulation, as well as reducing inequality. The Commitment to Equity Assessment (CEQ) evaluates … evaluations. The CEQ relies on inequality, poverty and tax and benefit incidence analyses. …
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In this article, we show the evolution of inequality for the largest economies of the Latin American region in the 21st … century, with separate consideration of income and wealth. We analyse the drivers of the changes in inequality and possible …
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A society that believes wealth to be determined by random "luck", rather than by merit, demands more redistribution. We present evidence of this behavior by exploiting a natural experiment provided by the L'Aquila earthquake in 2009, which hit a large area of Central Italy through a series of...
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The literature shows that when a society believes that wealth is determined by random “luck” rather than by merit, it demands more redistribution. Adverse shocks, like earthquakes, strengthen the belief that random “bad luck” can frustrate the outcomes achieved with merit. We...
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. Stabilizing their baseline income can make workers more tolerant of inequality. We present evidence of this attitude in the UK by … Survey, we show that workers that benefited from the NMW program became relatively more tolerant of inequality and more …
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for the Conservative Party. As far as tolerance for high incomes is related to tolerance of inequality, our results may …
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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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