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Different concepts of inequality lead to different positions in discussions about whether economic growth leads to … increasing inequality. This study investigates how over 1,100 young adults in Mozambique perceive inequality and whether their … believe that inequality in their neighbourhood is too high and that circumstances beyond their control explain why some people …
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Labour market incomes have been a major contributor to the important fall in inequality in Latin America during the … 2000s. Indeed, it was the main contributor in countries where inequality fell more dramatically. A proper understanding of … the workings of the labour market is necessary to comprehend why inequality fell, what lies ahead of us and what we can do …
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Studies of the spatial dimensions of inequality in developing countries are mostly restricted to states, provinces, or … procedure to calculate inequality between and within smaller spatial units in the context of India, taking advantage of census … (spatial) inequality between villages and blocks and to derive (local) inequality within these spatial units. We find that the …
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The United States and China are the world's largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world's economic output. This paper aims to examine whether the two economic giants are also lands of opportunity where resources are allocated in a way that minimizes...
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inequality, focusing on the very top-the top 1, 0.1, and 0.01 per cent of the income distribution. The focus on the extreme top …
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productivity of the sector has been converging, within-sector inequality has been increasing. Agricultural income inequality is … still less than overall income inequality, but it measures significantly higher when we use higher-quality and more … of capital income and corporate profits in the sector. Given the likely increase in agricultural inequality during the …
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that can be used to analyse the inequality phenomenon in and among countries. The data are easily accessible for use in … comparative research on inequality across regions and countries, especially those covered by the UNU-WIDER World Income Inequality … Database (WIID) initiative. This initiative is among the leading data innovations in the field of inequality research. This …
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This paper applies recent developments in collective model estimation to elicit the household resource sharing rule, i.e. the amount of household resources accruing to fathers, mothers, and their children among African families in South Africa. We use the 2010/11 South African Income and...
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How can development programmes reach out to remote communities? This paper presents experimental evidence on the impact of a role models intervention that aims to inspire ethnic minority households to start businesses and diversify income sources. The experiment took place in three provinces of...
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This paper has two purposes. The first is to define clearly different social mobility concepts and components. The second is to embed these concepts and components into a larger context of social mobility research. The core of the paper develops six mobility concepts and their measures as well...
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