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This paper provides empirical results for internal migration and commuting flows using panel data for 89 economic regions in Norway for the years 2001-2014. The emphasis is on the potential effects of different incentive variables. We consider both in- and out-migration as well as in- and...
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implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … distribution has become more relatively equal due to falling inter-country relative inequality, and that by some measures global … "inequality convergence" with previously more equal countries becoming less equal over time and the obverse. We provide support …
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This study analyses the relation between moving during childhood and four different outcomes later in life. We use detailed data on complete cohorts born in Norway between 1965 and 1980 (N=967 151), their parents and siblings, and information on all their moves between Norway's municipalities....
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believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, suggesting it will be hard for modern social policy … this must always have been true. Indeed, some have argued that high inequality appeared very early in the post … performance we observe there even today. This paper argues to the contrary. Compared with the rest of the world, inequality was …
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the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …
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In this paper, we revisit the inequality-growth relationship using an enhanced panel data set with improved inequality …, similar to Forbes we find a significant positive association between inequality and subsequent economic growth in the full … relationship between inequality and growth emerges due to the particular timing of inequality and growth dynamics in transition …
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Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …
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In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the … less in favor of income redistribution. In societies with a high level of actual social mobility, income inequality is …
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substantial decrease in inequality among households with preschoolers, since the child care subsidies very much favour well …
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between productivity growth and inequality. If this view is correct it poses some challenges for policies that focus on … of factors other than skilled biased technical change in order to explain the diverse picture of changes in inequality … explanations for the varying experience wrt. wage inequality between OECD-countries in recent decades. …
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