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, which grows to 10ppts four years after. This is not enough to offset the loss in income on average, and income poverty rises …
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to data from 12 countries, and investigate resource shares, gender gaps, and poverty at the individual level. We reject … equal sharing, and find large gender gaps in resource shares, and consequently in poverty rates, in some countries. …
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In this study we analyze the effects of corruption on income inequality and poverty. Our analysis advances the existing …, we use all commonly used inequality and poverty measures including various Atkinson indexes, Gini index, standard … deviation of the logarithms, relative mean deviation, coefficient of variation, and the poverty rate defined by the U.S. Census …
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In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is compared and empirically related to economic, political, and behavioral determinants elaborated in the literature. Lying in between the two poles, Switzerland provides unique evidence...
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We estimate the effect of the introduction of the UK’s National Living Wage in 2016, and increases in it up to 2019, using a new empirical method. We apply a bunching approach to a setting with no geographical variation in minimum wage rates. We effectively compare employment changes in each...
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