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School closures during the 2020 pandemic forced countries to rapidly adopt distance learning, with uncertain effects on education inequalities. Using PISA 2018 data from France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, we find that students unable to learn remotely, because of a lack of ICT...
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We consider how the possibility of international migration affects an individual’s educational choices in their home country. Without the opportunity to emigrate abroad people choose their educational investment (and hence their skill level) as we might expect, taking into account the utility...
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We examine the phenomenon of forsaken schooling resulting from opportunities abroad. The brain-drain/gain literature takes as its starting point the migration of educated/professional labor from poor origin countries to richer host countries. While high-skilled emigration is troubling, even more...
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To describe and understand the economic inequality in a given so- ciety, it is necessary to understand intra …-household inequality. House- holds can hide important inequalities, but can also be essential units for redistribution in society. This … for poverty and inequality measurement. Methods that assign each household member a per-adult share of household …
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addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …
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There is a clear and persistent inequality of bureaucratic employment between individuals with a bureaucrat parent and … counter-corruption affect inequality and potential cronyism in bureaucratic employment through inter-generational transmission …
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inequality across racial and ethnic groups in food expenditures and in the resources needed to meet basic food needs (the "food …
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This study reexamines the relationship between economic growth and inequality, challenging the conventional view that … regards inequality solely as an impediment to development. While recognizing the essential role of economic growth in … growth. We explore how inequality interplays with pressing global challenges like climate change and pandemics, areas that …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between economic growth, inequality and redistribution. In a cross-country setting … for 25 EU countries over the period 2007-2019, we show that market income inequality is associated with higher growth in …
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Research on the consequences of income inequality on subjective well-being has yielded mixed results, including a lack … differentiate between perceived and actual income inequality. Perceptions of inequality matter because individuals often do not know … the actual level of inequality in their country. Leveraging data from the 2016 Life in Transition Survey, which includes …
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