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the National Survey of Households-PNAD COVID-19/IBGE-to quantify the socioeconomic inequality in health during the first … wave of COVID-19 infections in Brazil. We use the concentration curve, the concentration index, and a decomposition … higher income levels. When considering symptoms similar to a COVID-19 infection, inequality practically disappears. Among …
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We build a Susceptible-Infected-Vaccinated Economic two-sector growth model to study the evolution of inequality in an … long-run inequality depends on the economic variable we use to build our inequality measure, on the infectiousness of the … disease, and on whether we address individual or group measures of inequality. Under our calibration, if the share of …
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The paper gives us a first look on the unique effects of the crisis on the Arab minority in Israel. It contributes to our understanding on how economic and epidemic crises affect marginalized ethnic minorities and informs decision makers while formulating policies to deal with the crisis's...
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different groups in the UK, and the consequences that these changes have for income inequality and for measures of deprivation … and poverty. This is the 22nd annual report published by IFS authors on living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK …
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We use microsimulation to estimate the short-term distributional consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico. Although the potential increase in poverty is significant, we find that compared to their pre-shock income, those who lost the most are the moderate poor and the vulnerable to...
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infections and inequalities in infections are largely driven by inequalities in the inability to work remotely and in within …
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