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A considerable part of the poverty that is measured in a single period is transitory rather than persistent. In most countries, only a portion of people who are currently poor are persistently poor. People who are persistently poor or who cycle into and out of poverty should be the main focus of...
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This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records … from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education … returns to education for the period 2005-10 largest for the 5th and 10th percentiles. Inequality decreased from the lower to …
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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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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 …
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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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Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), both income inequality and poverty are considered for … the crisis - in 2009 - inequality dropped, and it increased afterwards. Poverty was not affected very much by economic …
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macroeconomics and income inequality on the other hand. For this purpose, several estimation equations are derived by econometric …; afterwards, these connections are used to produce a nexus between German income inequality and the stated macroeconomic variables … unemployment rates. While the measured income inequality is upwards directly (exogenously) driven by demographic ageing, the …
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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/10012497942
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516605