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Income dependent equivalence scales, inequality, and poverty

Dudel, Christian; Garbuszus, Jan Marvin; Ott, Notburga; … - 2015

Most equivalence scales which are applied in research on poverty and inequality do not depend on income, although there … differing assessments of poverty and inequality under quite general conditions. German microdata will be used to demonstrate and …

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Inequality, well-being and institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean

Oberoi, Jaideep; Ahsan, Syed - 2003

This paper focuses on the role of institutions in the fight against poverty and inequality. Our view of institutions …-income poverty à la capability approach of Amartya Sen) allows a rich discussion of policy interventions. While both orientations as … to the concepts of poverty, inequality and institutions are expounded on a priori reasoning, empirical analysis with LAC …

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The application of the capability approach to high-income OECD countries : a preliminary survey

Volkert, Jürgen; Schneider, Friedrich - 2011

-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA applications related to general well-being, inequalities, poverty and human … ; high income countries ; general well being ; poverty ; human development ; assessing capabilities …

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Does gender equality translate into economic equality? : evidence from about 150 nations

Nelson, Michael A.; Goel, Rajeev K. - 2021

This paper adds to our understanding of the causes of income inequality across nations by examining the influence of different aspects of gender equality or female empowerment. Whereas the economics of income inequality has been an area of active academic inquiry, the role of gender equality has...

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Can there be a wave-like association between economic growth and inequality? : theory and lessons for East Asia from the Middle East

Gangopadhyay, Partha; Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2012

ominous messages for using equitable growth in fighting poverty. Rapid growing developing economies need to adopt appropriate … crucial to ensure more equity and social stability. -- growth ; inequality ; poverty ; East Asia and the Middle East …

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Is there a nonlinear relationship between economic growth and inequality? : theory and lessons from ASEAN, People Republic of China and India

Gangopadhyay, Partha; Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2015

In view of rising inequality in fast growing Asian developing countries, it is important to study the relationship between economic growth and income inequity. We develop a simple model to establish that economic growth and inequality can bear a complex and non-linear relationship if policy...

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Education, social equality and economic growth : a view of the landscape

Thorvaldur Gylfason; Gylfi Zoega - 2003

Education has been one of the key determinants of economic growth around the world since 1965. In this paper, we discuss three different measures of education, and consider their relationship to the distribution of income as measured by the Gini coefficient as well as to economic growth across...

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Education, growth and income inequality

Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2002

When types of workers are imperfect substitutes, the Mincerian rate of return to human capital is negatively related to the supply of human capital. We work out a simple model for the joint evolution of output and wage dispersion. We estimate this model using cross-country panel data on GDP and...

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Poverty and welfare measurement on the basis of prospect theory

Jäntti, Markus; Kanbur, Ravi; Nyyssölä, Milla; … - 2013

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference … differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on … ; poverty ; inequality ; welfare measurement ; vulnerability …

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Reference income effects in the determination of equivalence scales using income satisfaction data

Borah, Melanie; Knabe, Andreas; Kuhställer, Carina - 2016

We estimate household equivalence scales using income satisfaction data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We extend previous studies applying this approach by taking reference income into account. This allows separating needs-based from reference effects in the determination of income...

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