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Decomposing the Gaps between Afro-descendants and Whites along the Wage Distribution

Bucheli, Marisa; Sanromán, Graciela - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2010

In this paper we analyze the racial wage gap in Uruguay in the period 2006-2009 using data from the Household Survey collected by INE (the National Statistics Institute). We select a sample of full-time men workers aged 25-59. We decompose the gap between log hourly-wages of Whites and...

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Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution

Dahlberg, Matz; Edmark, Karin; Lundqvist, Heléne - CESifo - 2011

In recent decades, the immigration of workers and refugees to Europe has increased substantially, and the composition of the population in many countries has consequently become much more heterogeneous in terms of ethnic background. If people exhibit in-group bias in the sense of being more...

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Viewpoint: Measuring the well-being of the poor with income or consumption: a Canadian perspective

Brzozowski, Matthew; Crossley, Thomas F. - In: Canadian Journal of Economics 44 (2011) 1, pp. 88-106

to study material well-being, inequality, and poverty. We offer an introduction to this research. Income and consumption …

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El Impacto Distributivo de los Cambios en las Decisiones de Fertilidad.

Marchionni, Mariana; Gasparini, Leonardo - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2002

Durante las últimas dos décadas las decisiones de fertilidad han variado significativamente y de manera no uniforme a lo largo de la distribución del ingreso. En este trabajo se estudian los efectos de estos cambios demográficos sobre dos dimensiones de la distribución del ingreso – la...

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Multidimensional poverty: Restricted and unrestricted hierarchy among poverty dimensions

Esposito, Lucio; Martinetti, Enrica Chiappero - In: Journal of Applied Economics XIII (2010) November, pp. 181-204

The increasing interest in multidimensional poverty and well-being analysis has added complexity to the way these phenomena are conceptualized and measured. When multiple attributes are considered, a criterion determining the relative importance attached to the different dimensions has to be...

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Land-use profiles of agrarian income and land ownership inequality in the province of Barcelona in mid-nineteenth century

Tello, Enric; Badia-Miró, Marc - Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria - SEHA - 2011

expected to lead to a greater inequality in wealth or income distribution. However, several case studies on the vineyard … confirmed or rejected by applying different inequality and polarization indices (Gini, Theil and top incomes), and innovative … methods (inequality possible frontier and extraction ratios), to the big dataset we have been able to assemble with the …

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Extending the Empirical Basis for Wealth Inequality Research Using Statistical Matching of Administrative and Survey Data

Rasner, Anika; Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

's lifecycle. Despite its quantitative relevance, social security wealth has been thus far omitted from wealth inequality analyses … distribution of individual net worth as well as overall inequality. The present value of pension entitlements (including … results based on net worth only, inequality of our amended wealth measure is about 25 percent less. Moreover, we present …

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Validating SHARE in France with other French surveys : health and income data

Garrouste, Christelle; Godefroy, Pascal; Laferrère, Anne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) is cross national: the questionnaire is identical across all participating countries and, because of the modest size of the sample in each country, it is usually not feasible to proceed to solely national use of the data. Moreover, as...

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Ethnocentrism and Internal Compensation Structuring: An Experimental Examination of Point Factor Job Evaluation

Martin, Daniel; Wiley, Donna; Legree, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

“Comparable Worth” represents the concept that men, women, minorities, and whites should receive equal pay for work of equal value from their employer. Much research and many articles have been written in regards to overall pay inequities between men and women; however information regarding...

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Bancarizacion y acceso a servicios financieros de beneficiarios urbanos del programa Familias en Acción

Maldonado, Jorge Higinio; Urrea, María Alejandra; … - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2011

El programa de transferencias condicionadas en Colombia, Familias en Acción, inició en el año 2009 un plan de bancarización de sus beneficiarios. El propósito central consiste en abrir cuentas de ahorro de bajo monto para cada uno de los beneficiarios del programa, que no sólo permiten el...

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