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between migration and economic development and inequality. The literature review suggests that there are several channels … through which migration affects economic inequality between countries in one or the other direction. The net effects are an …. We undertake an empirical analysis and find that immigration has contributed to reducing inequality within the 25 EU …
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between migration and economic development and inequality. The literature review suggests that there are several channels … through which migration affects economic inequality between countries in one or the other direction. The net effects are an …. We undertake an empirical analysis and find that immigration has contributed to reducing inequality within the 25 EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422474
between migration and economic development and inequality. The literature review suggests that there are several channels … through which migration affects economic inequality between countries in one or the other direction. The net effects are an …. We undertake an empirical analysis and find that immigration has contributed to reducing inequality within the 25 EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012507335
explores the relationship between income growth and income inequality using data at the municipal level in Sweden for the … period 1992-2007. We estimate a fixed effects panel data growth model, where the within-municipality income inequality is one … of the explanatory variables. Different inequality measures (Gini coefficient, top income shares, and measures of …
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implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … distribution has become more relatively equal due to falling inter-country relative inequality, and that by some measures global … ‘inequality convergence’ with previously more equal countries becoming less equal over time and the obverse. We provide support …
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Inequality in Mexico rose between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2010. We examine the role of market … (cash transfers) in explaining changes in inequality. We apply the ‘re-centered influence function’ method to decompose …--in demand; institutional factors were not relevant. Government transfers contributed to the decline in inequality, especially …
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of German data which causes significant increases of income inequality compared with income-independent, constant … equivalence scales. (2) Concerning different demarcations of income areas the pattern of income inequality in Germany 1995-2009 is … not distinctively changed in the several variants considered. (3) For three alternative inequality indicators out of the …
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The study assesses linkages between information technology, inequality and adult literacy in 57 developing countries … for the period 2012-2016. Income inequality is measured with the Gini coefficient while six dynamics of information … access in schools unconditionally promote adult literacy. The corresponding inequality threshold that should not be exceeded …
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With all the talk in Europe about “Islam” and “Muslim culture” it is surprising how little hard-core empirical evidence exists on the compatibility of “Muslim culture” with positive patterns of political, social, and ecological development in the world system in the 1980s, 1990s, and...
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In the paper, a combined approach is used to test for inequality differences of several well-being categories for a … number of groups of persons. Hereby, total inequality is decomposed into within- and into between-group/category inequality … (via a normalised coefficient of variation as the used inequality indicator). The decompositions are categorised into those …
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