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tend to receive care of higher measured quality and higher cost. Inequality is evident at home as well: measures of …-income households, reduces inequality in care provided, but it is mainly limited to older children and to the lowest income households …
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rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On …. disadvantaged children, earnings inequality could increase between one and four Gini points, depending on the assumptions. …
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The aim of the article is to assess the impact of taxes on poverty and inequality in Ukraine and provide … recommendations on how taxation should be used to address problems of inequality and poverty. The research methodology is based on a … taxation and social spending on inequality and poverty in individual countries. The dataset consists of data from the World …
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The ‘paradox of progress’ is an empirical regularity that associates more education with larger income inequality. Two …
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summarize recent horizontal inequality trends across and within countries and to better understand these changes over time …. Importantly, significant differences exist for different inequality dimensions, i.e. economic, social, political. In terms of data …, few cross-country horizontal inequality datasets are available for research. In general, there is a trade-off between the …
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We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment, applying dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection. We show that the program is successful in increasing employment and reducing social assistance....
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The causes and consequences of the intergenerational persistence of inequality are a topic of great interest among … observed and are associated with income inequality, poverty, economic growth, public educational expenditures and assortative …
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In Germany, the poor performance in PISA 2000 stimulated a heated public debate and a strong policy response. The government reacted to the low average and remarkable disparities registered by the test, and spurred reforms led to a significant improvement in the country fs educational...
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We describe gender and socioeconomic inequalities in the Big Five personality traits over the life cycle, using a facet-level inventory linked to administrative data. We estimate life-cycle profiles non-parametrically and test for cohort and sample-selection effects. We discuss the economic...
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We examine the phenomenon of forsaken schooling resulting from opportunities abroad. The brain-drain/gain literature takes as its starting point the migration of educated/professional labor from poor origin countries to richer host countries. While high-skilled emigration is troubling, even more...
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