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A non-parametric decomposition of redistribution into vertical and horizontal components

Perrote, Irene; Rodríguez, Juan Gabriel; Salas, Rafael - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, … - 2001

We use non-parametric methods to propose horizontal inequity (HI) measures that satisfy certain normative and statistical properties. The HI measures tackle the problem of arbitrary definition of similar individuals and satisfy the horizontal transfer principle. HI is measured by any index...

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Industrialisation, Trade Policy and Poverty Reduction: Evidence from Asia

Warr, Peter - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2003

Over recent decades, most of the developing economies of Asia achieved reductions in absolute poverty incidence, but these reductions varied greatly in size. Differences in the rate of aggregate economic growth explain part, but not all of these differences. One factor that would be important is...

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Income Distribution and the Size of the Informal Sector

Winkelried, Diego - EconWPA - 2005

relying on a channel whereby inequality affects the behaviour of aggregate demand and thus influences the incentives a firm … different fiscal policies, either demand or supply-orientated. The main findings are that high inequality leads to a large …

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Racial Income Disparities and the Measurement of Segregation

Sethi, Rajiv; Somanathan, Rohini - EconWPA - 2001

Racial segregation in residential patterns remains pervasive in the United States. This persistence is usually attributed to some combination of neighborhood preferences over racial composition, discrimination in real estate and credit markets, and the effects of racial disparities in income. We...

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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa - 2000

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …

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Welfare differentials across French and US labor markets $e_A general equilibrium interpretation

Cohen, Daniel - Centre pour la Recherche Économique et ses … - 1999

The paper computes lifetime welfare functions for French and American workers. For the vast majority of workers, we find that the lifetime discrepancy between the welfare of an employed and that of an unemployed worker appear to be quite similar in the two countries, corresponding to 9 monthly...

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Household incomes in New Zealand: The impact of the market, taxes and government spending, 1987/88–1997/98

Crawford, Ron; Johnston, Grant - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2004

How well have New Zealand households fared over a decade of extensive economic and social changes? This study compares household incomes in 1997/98 with household incomes in 1987/88, using the concept of "final income". Final income is a measure of the income accruing to households after...

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Racial and Gender Wage Differentials in South Africa: What can Cohort Data tell?

Grün, Carola - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

Three subsequent years of the October Household Survey data are used to construct a synthetic panel. Preparing cross sectional data that way allows to better utilise individual information and to address temporal developments also in the absence of genuine panel data. This paper focuses on...

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Heterogeneity within Communities: A Stochastic Model with Tenure Choice

Ortalo-Magné, François; Rady, Sven - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

Standard explanations for the income heterogeneity within neighborhoods rely on differences of preferences across households and heterogeneity of the housing stock. We propose an alternative and complementary explanation. We construct a stochastic equilibrium sorting model where (1) income is...

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Overeducation and Wages in Europe: Evidence from Quantile Regression.

Egido, Ana I. Moro; Budría, Santiago - Centro de Estudios Andaluces, Government of Andalusia - 2007

La literatura existente ha asumido que el efecto de la sobre-educación es constante a lo largo de la distribución condicional de salarios. En este artículo usamos la regresión cuantílica con datos de 12 países europeos para mostrar que las diferencias entre los segmentos de la...

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