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This document is the first of a series of reports on the socio-economic situation in Uruguay. It is mainly based on a wide range of distributional, labor and social statistics computed from microdata collected by the Encuesta Continua de Hogares (ECH) from 1989 to 2003. Data has also been drawn...
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This paper provides evidence on growth and income poverty in Latin American and the Caribbean. Results are obtained by processing microdata from household surveys of 18 LAC countries covering the 1990s and early 2000s. Over this period the LAC economies have experienced very heterogeneous...
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This document presents and discusses an extensive set of statistics aimed at characterizing the degree of economic polarisation in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. The study is based on a dataset of household surveys from 21 LAC countries in the period 1989-2004. Latin America...
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This paper examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality and poverty. First, it … treatment in poverty measurement. Finally, it reviews the axiomatic approach to inequality analysis. The paper provides a …
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Where should we look to understand the origin of inequality? I propose an unusual window of evidence—modern societies …. I hypothesize that evidence for the origin of inequality is encoded in the institutional structure of industrial … energy, hierarchy, and inequality and creates a hindcast of the origin of inequality. The results are broadly consistent with …
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The relationship between inequality and financial instability has become a thriving topic of research in heterodox …
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evidence that Federalism is a strong predictor of greater income inequality in developing economies. It is also a strong … appears to be a leap from the frying pan into the fire of even greater income inequality and poverty incidence. …
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Tony Atkinson is universally celebrated for his outstanding contributions to the measurement and analysis of inequality …, but he never saw the study of inequality as a separate branch of economics. He was an economist in the classical sense …
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We use 1995, 2002 and 2013 CHIP data to investigate the urban household consumption expenditure inequality. The overall … inequality of urban household consumption expenditure measured by Gini coefficient slightly decreases from 0.33 in 1995 to 0 …, the percentile ratio of p90/p10 shows that consumption inequality increases all the time. Besides, the inequality of basic …
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