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and 2020 and other data sources, we find within-province inequality to be much larger than between-province inequality …. Furthermore, this inequality gap is rising over time. Despite the country's fast poverty reduction, the poor were increasingly … inequality levels. We also find greater inequality to have negative impact on economic growth and poverty reduction. Our results …
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Understanding the economic and social effects of the recent global trends of rising market concentration and market power has become a policy priority. To fill this knowledge gap, this paper introduces a simple simulation method, the Welfare and Competition tool (WELCOM), to estimate with...
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on inequality and progressivity become substantially lower when payroll taxes are reduced, which is due to increased work …
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on inequality and progressivity become substantially lower when payroll taxes are reduced, which is due to increased work …
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and the alarming inequality in China have made relative deprivation more and more intense for the Chinese population. This …
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When considering multiple hypothesis tests simultaneously, standard statistical techniques will lead to over-rejection of null hypotheses unless the multiplicity of the testing framework is explicitly considered. In this paper we discuss the Romano-Wolf multiple hypothesis correction, and...
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? How do the facts relate to proposed theories about changes in inequality? We present the main inequality trends, in some …-called top income literature and new evidence on wealth concentration. The picture that emerges shows that inequality was … increasing concentration, but in most cases inequality seems to have been relatively constant at a high level in the nineteenth …
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The lifecycle approach is the workhorse to model saving decisions of individuals. It conjectures individuals preferring a constant consumption stream across their lifecycle saving till retirement and dis-saving thereafter. The reality is often at odd with this assumption giving rise to our...
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This paper presents new estimates of wealth inequality in Sweden during 2000–2012, linking wealth register data up to … of the wealth tax stopped the collection of individual wealth statistics. We find that wealth inequality increased after … estimates may well approximate overall inequality levels and trends, they are highly sensitive to assumptions and the quality of …
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? How do the facts relate to proposed theories about changes in inequality? We present the main inequality trends, in some …-called top income literature and new evidence on wealth concentration. The picture that emerges shows that inequality was … increasing concentration, but in most cases inequality seems to have been relatively constant at a high level in the nineteenth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764612