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Chapter 19. Cross-Country Evidence of the Multiple Causes of Inequality Changes in the OECD Area

Förster, Michael F.; Tóth, István György - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 1729-1843). 2015

drivers of inequality in six areas: (i) structural macroeconomic sectoral changes, (ii) globalization and technology change …

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Benefitting from globalisation and technological change in Australia

Sila, Urban; Hemmings, Philip J. - 2019

Australia has seen large rises in living standards over the last decades across the whole of the income distribution. Technological change and international trade have contributed to this success, but have also brought structural change. Some industries have declined, while others flourished....

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The global income distribution for high-income countries

Hermansen, Mikkel Nørlem - 2017

This paper presents the global income distribution between all individuals living in the developed world. Global …

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Trade Openness and Income Inequality : New Empirical Evidence

Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021

We examine how trade openness influences income inequality within countries. The sample includes 139 countries over the period 1970-2014. We employ predicted openness as instrument to deal with the endogeneity of trade openness. The effect of trade openness on income inequality differs across...

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Indexing out of poverty? : fiscal drag and benefit erosion in cross-national perspective

Paulus, Alari; Sutherland, Holly; Tasseva, Iva - 2019

We assess how tax-benefit policy developments in 2001-2011 affected the household income distribution in seven EU countries. We use the standard microsimulation-based decomposition method, separating further the effect of structural policy changes and the uprating of monetary parameters, which...

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On the relation between income inequality and happiness : do fairness perceptions matter?

Bjørnskov, Christian (contributor); … - 2010

the World Values Survey data and a broad set of fairness measures, we find strong support for the negative (positive …

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On the relation between income inequality and happiness : do fairness perceptions matter?

Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2009

the World Values Survey data and a broad set of fairness measures, we find strong support for the negative (positive …

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Globalization and inequality in Latin America

Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Kovak, Brian K. - 2023

We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on … dimensions of inequality, and developing new methodologies to capture the many facets of globalization's relationship to … that focus on distinct aspects of globalization's relationship to inequality. …

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Threats on the Prosperous Society and the Future of Capitalism

Kirsh, Yoram - 2021

which increased the world GDP per capita six-fold between 1900 and 2000. The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated how …

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Estimating the level and distribution of global wealth, 2000-14

Davies, James B.; Lluberas, Rodrigo; Shorrocks, Anthony F. - 2016

Davies et al. (2008, 2011) provided the first estimates of the global distribution of wealth, using 2000 as the benchmark year. These estimates have been revised and updated since 2010, and the purpose of this paper is to explain the ways in which the estimation methodology has evolved and...

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