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Labor Income Polarization in Greater Buenos Aires

Viollaz, Mariana; Olivieri, Sergio; Alejo, Javier - 2009

This paper presents and analyzes a group of statistics which characterize the level and evolution of the labor income polarization in Greater Buenos Aires over the past two decades (1986-2006). The empirical evidence reveals two stages throughout those years: the first one distinguished by an...

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Absolute or relative: Perceptions of inequality among young adults in Mozambique

Barletta, Giulia; Ferreira, Ines A.; Salvucci, Vincenzo - 2023

Different concepts of inequality lead to different positions in discussions about whether economic growth leads to … increasing inequality. This study investigates how over 1,100 young adults in Mozambique perceive inequality and whether their … believe that inequality in their neighbourhood is too high and that circumstances beyond their control explain why some people …

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A temporal analysis of wealth in eighteenth-century Ottoman Kastamonu

Cosgel, Metin; Ergene, Bogac A.; Kaygun, Atabey - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2013

inequality. The article explores the factors that contributed to these trends and discusses the relevance of our findings for …

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Economic Polarisation in Latin America and the Caribbean: What do Household Surveys Tell Us?

Gasparini, Leonardo; Horenstein, Matías; Olivieri, Sergio - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2006

This document presents and discusses an extensive set of statistics aimed at characterizing the degree of economic polarisation in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. The study is based on a dataset of household surveys from 21 LAC countries in the period 1989-2004. Latin America...

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Income Distribution, Institutions and Conflicts: An Exploratory Analysis for Latin America and the Caribbean

Gasparini, Leonardo; Molina, Ezequiel - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2006

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022038

Polarization and the Middle Class

Borraz, Fernando; Pampillón, Nicolás Gonzalez; Rossi, … - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2011

by an increasing income inequality, we Önd that the middle class declined and income polarization increased. In the …

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Value of housework time and changes in traditional economic well-being in Finland in 1979-2000

Mattila-Wiro, Paivi - In: electronic International Journal of Time Use Research 7 (2010) 1, pp. 17-41

The paper looks at the change, the level and the structure of income distribution and distribution of consumption possibilities at the individual and at the household level between the years 1979 and 2000. I also pay attention to the development of low incomes when the concept of income is...

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Absolute or relative : perceptions of inequality among young adults in Mozambique

Barletta, Giulia; Ferreira, Ines A.; Salvucci, Vincenzo - 2023

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Inequality as Policy: The United States Since 1979

Schmitt, John - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009

Since the end of the 1970s, the United States has seen a dramatic increase in economic inequality. While the United … circumstances but is the direct result of a set of policies designed first and foremost to increase inequality. …

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