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economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight … poverty and inequality. …
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This paper presents a comparative overview of mobility patterns in 14 Latin American countries between 1992 and 2003. Using three alternative econometric techniques on constructed pseudo-panels, the paper provides a set of estimators for the traditional notion of income mobility as well as for...
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high levels of inequality. Decomposition analysis shows that poverty reduction in Namibia is largely driven by growth in … mean incomes rather than redistribution. Even so, there have been important changes in inequality, especially between … different social groups, as educational attainment has replaced ethnicity as the main determinant of inequality between groups. …
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(Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) project. A measure of the household's disposable annual income is used …
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In this paper, I first summarize how the US Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) operates and describe the characteristics of recipients. I then discuss empirical work on the effects of the EITC on poverty and income distribution, and its effects on labor supply. Next, I discuss a few policy concerns...
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performance of the 1980s. In particular, poverty and inequality indicators have improved dramatically, especially since the late …
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and sluggish wages lie at the root of high inequality and poverty. This paper looks at changes in hourly earnings from the …, the paper decomposes the change in earnings per worker into changes in the demographic and socio … address the link between labour markets and the dynamics of inequality and poverty by comparing the average performance of the …
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-specific discussion on multidimensional poverty and inequality in the non-income space, with a special reference to the countries in the …
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inequality during the 1990s. We show that there is no country in Latin America where inequality declined during the 1990s … measured used. Persistently high inequality inhibited further poverty reduction. …
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Este trabajo intenta responder a la pregunta de cuál ha sido el efecto de la liberalización comercial y financiera sobre la desigualdad y la pobreza en América Latina. Para esto, proponemos una metodología para estimar el efecto de la liberalización económica sobre la desigualdad y la...
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