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The role of gender inequalities in explaining income growth, poverty and inequality: Evidence from Latin American countries
Costa, Joana; Silva, Elydia; Vaz, Fábio - 2009
economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight … poverty and inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293303
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Social mobility in Latin America: A review of existing evidence
Azevedo, Viviane; Bouillon, César P. - 2009
This paper reviews evidence on social mobility in Latin America. Several studies have used data sets that collect intergenerational socio economic information. The data, though limited, suggest that social mobility is low in the region, even when compared with low social mobility developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278279
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Economic well-being, social mobility, and preferences for income redistribution: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment
Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2010
In this paper, preferences for income redistribution in Switzerland are elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) performed in 2008. In addition to the amount of redistribution as a share of GDP, attributes also included its uses (working poor, the unemployed, old-age pensioners,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315571
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Factors Behind International Relocation and Changes in Production Geography in the European Automobile Components Industry
Lampón, Jesús; Lago-Peñas, Santiago - 2013
This article analyses business strategies in the automobile sector to determine the key factors behind production relocation processes in automobile components suppliers. These factors help explain changes in production geography in the sector not only in terms of location advantages but also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014159354
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Eurasian Integration and Its Institutions : Possible Contributions to Security in Eurasia
Vinokurov, Evgeny; Libman, Alexander - 2017
The authors turn to the large family of institutions that came into existence in post-Soviet Eurasia (and, in some ways, beyond it) over the last two decades. The researchers review their current state, agenda, real and perceived mandate, and their respective achievements and constraints. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014118027
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Inequality, democracy, institutional quality, and fiscal redistribution
Chong, Alberto; Gradstein, Mark - 2007
quality. The theoretical model suggests that income inequality, coupled with political bias in favor of the rich, decreases … in a panel of countries, the paper finds that inequality has a negative effect on both institutional quality and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278272
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Life satisfaction and income inequality
Verme, Paolo - 2010
Do people care about income inequality and does income inequality affect subjective well-being? Welfare theories can … predict either a positive or a negative impact of income inequality on subjective well-being and empirical research has found … such empirical heterogeneity. Using a very large sample of world citizens we test the consistency of income inequality in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336043
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Why does the amount of income redistribution differ between United States and Europe? The Janus face of Switzerland
Akkoyunlu, Sule; Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2009
In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is compared and empirically related to economic, political, and behavioral determinants elaborated in the literature. Lying in between the two poles, Switzerland provides unique evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315581
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Training quality and earnings: The effects of competition on the provision of public-sponsored training programs
Chong, Alberto; Galdo, José - 2006
programs. In particular, we study the link between training quality and labor earnings using a Peruvian program that targets … higher average and marginal treatment impacts. These earnings differentials are larger for females rather than males, and are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278300
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Earnings Dynamics and Inequality during Macroeconomic Turbulence: Sweden 1991-1999
Gustavsson, Magnus - 2002
earnings inequality. …Using a rich longitudinal database, I study the dynamics behind changes in the distribution of annual earnings in … Sweden 1991 to 1999. The analysis indicates a systematic increase in persistent earnings differentials during the 1990s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321750