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Trends in income and consumption inequality in Bolivia: A fairy tale of growing dwarfs and shrinking giants Draft - Public disclosure unauthorized

Hernani-Limarino, Werner L.; Eid, Ahmed; Aguirre, Rodrigo - 2013

This paper documents and describes the evolution of income and consumption inequality in Bolivia between 1999 and 2011 …. We find that income and consumption inequality measured by the Gini in- dex both dropped 22% during the period we analyze …, making Bolivia the top performer in the Latin American region regarding income inequality reduction. To make a more complete …

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Party Age and Party Color: New Results on the Political Economy of Redistribution and Inequality

Keefer, Philip; Milanovic, Branko - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014

This working paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries …

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Returns to Higher Education in Chile and Colombia

González-Velosa, Carolina; Rucci, Graciana; Sarzosa, Miguel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2015

In the last decades, countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have experienced a dramatic increase in the levels of higher education enrollment. Using administrative data from Chile and Colombia, we find that this phenomenon is not always associated with higher private individual returns. In...

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Sharing High Growth Across Generations: Pensions and Demographic Transition in China

Song, Zheng Michael; Storesletten, Kjetil; Zilibotti, … - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2012

Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient issues in contemporary China. China’s aging population …

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Les pauvres ont-ils réellement profité de la croissance au Sénégal de 1994 à 2006?

Gacko, Ibrahima; Yedan, Ali - In: Perspective Afrique 6 (2014) 1-3, pp. 1-22

1994 to 2005, i.e., a pro-poor growth accompanied by increased inequality. Our results are robust to the use of the four …

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Erasing Class/(Re)Creating Ethnicity: Jobs, Politics, Accumulation and Identity in Kenya

Gĩthĩnji, Mwangi - In: The Review of Black Political Economy 42 (2015) 1, pp. 87-110

This paper empirically examines the relationship between employment, wages and ethnicity via a case study of Kenya. I challenge the pervasive view that ethnicity in Kenya specifically and Africa more generally is related to a primordial instinct and attempt to show empirically that ethnicity is...

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Consumer’s Surplus with a Racial Apology? Black Relative to Non-Black Inequality in the Welfare Gains of Fuel-Efficient Cars and Trucks

Elu, Juliet; Price, Gregory - In: The Review of Black Political Economy 42 (2015) 1, pp. 135-154

This paper considers whether race conditions the welfare gains associated with the purchase of cars and trucks that comply with National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency Standards . We utilize data from the General Social Survey on respondent stated...

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Economic, welfare, demographic, and gender inequalities among selected Arab countries

Nissan, Edward; Niroomand, Farhang - In: Journal of Economics and Finance 39 (2015) 2, pp. 396-411

The purpose of this research is to compare countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) against a selection of non-GCC Arab countries, using a large collection of data obtained from the United Nations’ latest Human Development Report. The comparisons between the two groups of countries...

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A Measure of Income Poverty Including Housing: Benefits and Limitations for Policy Making

Maestri, Virginia - In: Social Indicators Research 121 (2015) 3, pp. 675-696

-SILC data and provides an assessment of the impact of the housing situation of households on relative poverty and inequality and … results show that relative income poverty and inequality decrease if imputed rent is taken into account, while they increase …

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Individual Diversity and the Gini Decomposition

Ceriani, Lidia; Verme, Paolo - In: Social Indicators Research 121 (2015) 3, pp. 637-646

The paper defines the Gini index as the sum of individual contributions where individual contributions are interpreted as the degree of diversity of each individual from all other members of society. Among various possible forms of individual contributions to the Gini found in the literature, we...

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