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This study examined the impact of income inequality on female labour force participation in West Africa for the period … inequality. For robustness, the study also utilises female employment and female unemployment as measures of female labour force … empirical results reveal that the three measures of income inequality significantly reduce the participation of women in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012301773
This study examined the impact of income inequality on female labour force participation in West Africa for the period … inequality. For robustness, the study also utilises female employment and female unemployment as measures of female labour force … empirical results reveal that the three measures of income inequality significantly reduce the participation of women in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012489737
concerned the dynamics of income inequality. In this paper we analyse the heterogeneous effects of transition reforms on … inequality by explicitly considering their speed and sequencing. To this aim we identify seven transition models in which the 27 … transition patterns, which favoured a coordination of reforms especially in specific fields, were relatively less pro-inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368430
) and income inequality in the United States. Using panel cointegration techniques that allow for cross …-sectional heterogeneity, cross-sectional dependence, and endogenous regressors, we find that the short-run effects of FDI on income inequality … negative effect on income inequality in the United States. This result for the United States as a whole does not imply that FDI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008478301
This paper reviews the literature on economic inequality and trust. Cross-country studies, within-country studies, and … experiments all suggest that economic inequality exerts a negative influence on trust. Four mechanisms are proposed to explain the … negative relationship: social ties (or networks), inference on social relationships (to see inequality as a signal of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005029285
We present new evidence on the influence of income inequality on generalized trust. Using individual panel data from … income inequality and trust is particularly strong for people with a strong aversion against income differentials. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190452
We present new evidence on the influence of income inequality on generalized trust. Using individual panel data from … relationship between income inequality and trust is particularly strong for people with a strong aversion against income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642396
We present new evidence on the influence of income inequality on generalized trust. Using individual panel data from … relationship between income inequality and trust is particularly strong for people with a strong aversion against income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645359
This paper revisits the relationship between inequality and redistribution in a panel of advanced OECD countries. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008646770
inequality, using an unbalanced panel of 43 upper-middle and high income countries for the period 1972-2006. We consider and … estimate two individual equations explaining growth and inequality in order to assess the incidence of different fiscal … policies. Firstly, our approach considers imposing orthogonal assumptions between growth and inequality in both equations, and …
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