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changes at the extremes of the distribution might obscure inequality's actual dimension, and thereby help perpetuate it. To … avoid this, the present paper discusses a complementary indicator for the measurement of inequality: the ratio of the income …
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household wealth to household income considerably increases measured inequality and the share of income from wealth in … inequality. However, both measures show about the same rise in inequality over the period. Our results contradict the assertion …
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The isograph methodology is developed here with associated distributions, indicators of inequality, additional results … inequality analyses with a larger conceptualization of "morphology of inequality," not reduced to a Gini (or the like) measure. …
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Should the state treat men and women in identical ways, or should it legislate and enforce policies that are aware of gender differences? In other words, should the state be gender-blind or gender-sensitive? Gender, ethnic, religious, sexual orientation, ideological, economic, political, and...
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fuel poverty explanatory factors in Egypt and Jordan. First, we use the "Low income - High Consumption" indicator to … measure the fuel poverty extent. Second, we implement a multivariate statistical approach to untangle the fuel poor household … profile. Then, to explore the factors driving the risk of falling into fuel poverty situations we use a logistic regression …
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conditioning on a variety of country-level factors that may matter for growth and inequality changes. This evidence confirms the … central importance of economic growth for poverty reduction and illustrates the difficulty of identifying specific …
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high levels of inequality. Decomposition analysis shows that poverty reduction in Namibia is largely driven by growth in … 1990 and the effects on poverty. To produce comparability between two household surveys, they use survey matching … significant decrease in the poverty headcount over the period and small but insignificant decreases in the country's extremely …
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This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty … relationship between the concentration of cash transfers net of direct taxes and their effectiveness in terms of reducing poverty … and inequality. The strength of the relationship varies between countries and in some cases between the all age and the …
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If people are more altruistic towards their own kind, the increased ethnic heterogeneity resulting from increased immigration to Europe in recent decades will likely lead to reduced support for redistribution among natives. This paper exploits a nationwide program placing refugees in...
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In a comment to Dahlberg, Edmark and Lundqvist (2012), Nekby and Pettersson-Lidbom (2012) argue (i) that the refugee placement program should be measured with contracted rather than actually placed refugees, and claim that the correlation between the two measures is insignificant and close to...
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