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indicators, including social welfare, poverty, inequality, and mobility, and reviews some of its design shortcomings. The paper …
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youth—over the last two decades. The paper shows that while Tunisia has significantly reduced poverty between 2000 and 2019 …, the profile of the poor has not changed much: poverty remains concentrated in rural and western regions, mainly among … construction. Moreover, the share of the vulnerable Tunisian population at risk of falling into poverty is quite large, especially …
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greater rates of poverty decline and gains in wages and employment. We extend this literature by estimating the impact of …
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We study the dynamic effects of export exposure over local labor markets in Indonesia. We develop an empirical strategy to instrument exposure to exports using exposure to foreign demand shocks and validate it showing that the labor market responses are consistent with those expected from demand...
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-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade …
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provides new evidence on the impact of a significant rise in exports on poverty and inequality at the local level. The analysis … trade and poverty maps for almost 2,000 Mexican municipalities between 2004 and 2014, the study presented in this paper … of exports to workers reduces income inequality measured by the Gini coefficient by 0.17 points (using a 0 to 100 scale …
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When is one distribution (of income, consumption, or some other economic variable) more equal or better than another? This question has proven difficult to answer in situations where distribution functions intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker criteria...
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This paper investigates the relationship between the capital share in national income and personal income inequality … income shares with a broader measure of inequality (Gini coefficient), the positive relationship re-mains but becomes …
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When is one distribution (of income, consumption, or some other economic variable) more equal or better than another? This question has proven difficult to answer in situations where distribution functions intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker criteria...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329031
This paper examines how inequality could be tackled through structural transformation using unit record data from the … Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for Africa. Results suggest inequality between countries tends to be higher when the share of …' contributions to employment or value-added of the gross domestic product (GDP). On the other hand, within-country inequality tends …
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